Interesting edge banding on MDF

[Bill Dufour]

I was at the doctors the other day and I saw an interesting mdf and angle iron stand for a computer and lab stuff. Simple rolling shelves on a angle iron frame. It looked like mdf with laminate bonded at the factory.
Interesting was the applied edges about 1/16 inch thick. They were real wood strips of alternating light dark color so it looked like 7 or 9 ply birch plywood. I guess now a days solid wood is out but birch plywood is the in look to fake if you can not afford the real plywood.
Bill D.

[Frank Pratt]

So they are putting on fake plywood edge grain? That's too funny!

[Bill Dufour]

So they are putting on fake plywood edge grain? That's too funny!

Exactly what I thought!
Bill D

[johnny means]

We were doing that stuff on school furnishings years ago. You'd be surprised at how much of that institutional plywood furniture isn't. I think it was mostly a way to make the desktops match the chairs while cutting costs.

[Erik Christensen]

I guess the next logical step to that is.... some instant super foam core with MDF edge banding