Every veneer maker has its own recipe for cooking logs to soften them up and bring out the wood grain and color. The overall steps are similar among veneer mills, but like a fine restaurant, it's the selection of ingredients, recipe and its execution that spells the difference in making veneer. M Bohlke Veneer Corp. in Fairfield, OH,  has been manufacturing veneer for almost 50 years. The privately held company focused for decades on exporting fine hardwood veneers to  Europe.

A German furniture maker developed a salmon skin laminate a couple years ago, winning awards for the unusual product - and the process for producing it. We checked in to see if how the line was doing, and if products have been made with it.