Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian
...and we're using flat pieces of plywood...were the originals made of one piece of wood or a couple of pieces fitted together? Also, were they flat or were they convex (for lack of a better term)? If they were done with a gouge, they might be convex and I'd think that that would be more advantageous in many ways...
The wooden cores of originals were "plywood" - two layers of planking glued and pegged together with the grains at right angles. Some period paintings and drawings seem to show convex targes, but all of the surviving originals are flat, so maybe it was "artistic license"....