Abstract: Scarf faces 92a, 92b are machined at a heeling angle ?2 on a veneer 90 by adjusting the heeling angle ?2 for a desired camber h using the following Equation (1): h = R 2 · sin ? ? 2 - sin 2 ? ? 2 · R 2 - t 2 ( 1 + i 2 ) 4 ( 1 ) With the configuration, double cutting of the veneer 90 by a circular saw 20 can be effectively prevented. Since the camber h is set desirably, the risk can be reduced that the scarf faces 92a, 92b only partially join each other, and a space can be secured to retain an adhesive Ad between arc concavities 91, 91. Thus, when the veneers 90 are joined together at the scarf faces 92a, 92b, the adhesive Ad is unlikely to seep out onto the surfaces of the veneers 90. As a result, the scarf faces 92a, 92b can be properly joined together.

Abstract: A knife changing method is disclosed which is applicable to a veneer lathe equipped with a knife carriage to which a veneer peeling knife is clamped with its cutting edge set at a predetermined elevation relative to the knife carriage. The knife carriage is shiftable to at least one knife changing position and the lathe has formed in at least one of its side frames a knife passage adjacent the knife changing position of the carriage. In the knife changing operation, the knife carriage is firstly shifted to its knife changing position, where an old knife is released from the knife carriage by undoing knife clamps. The freed knife is laterally moved away from the veneer lathe through the knife passage in the side frame. Then, a new, or reground knife is moved laterally into the veneer lathe through the knife passage to a predetermined knife installing position on the knife carriage, where the new knife is fixed to the carriage by activating the knife clamps.