Many people think wood stops moving once it has been processed. The opposite is true. A curved panel keeps breathing, long after it has been mounted. Ignore that, and sooner or later you get a shape that pulls or a seam that no longer closes. Understand it, and you build that movement in from the start. Since 1946, G-Desmet has been shaping curved ideas in plywood, felt and solid wood. In all those years we have learned not to fight the life of the wood, but to understand it. We know how a panel reacts, how a curve settles, how one species behaves differently from another, and where the play sits. That knowledge lives in the hands of our people and in the way we approach every shape.
That is why we share tolerances. Anyone who works with a natural material cannot pretend that everything is fixed to the hundredth of a millimetre. A tolerance says exactly what you can expect: the margin the shape falls within, and what the wood may still do afterwards. So you know where you stand, before the piece is delivered. What is the difference between production tolerance and shape tolerance?
- Production tolerance is the tolerance resulting from operations such as cutting or milling.
- Shape tolerance refers to the deformation or "backspring" of the workpiece after bending.
In practice, a customer who knows our tolerances can design around them. The connection, the assembly, the seam beside it: everything becomes easier when the margin is clear up front. That is where good cooperation begins.
For us, this is part of the craft. We look for solutions together with our customers, inside and outside Europe. Clear tolerances are part of that. They make visible what we stand for and what wood can do. A living material asks for an honest conversation. We are happy to start that conversation with you.
