I'm an ancient ex-builder. So 'ex' that I remember stuff like wooden windows, t&g flooring, wallpaper (gasp!) and fibrous plaster ceilings. In those days, I bought most of my stuff from H.C.Kitchen, a great outfit to deal with. However, they sold out to Fletchers and voila, became Placemakers. Bad move from the customers' point of view, IMHO. A family firm replaced by a faceless corporation.

But I digress. I'm trying to remember the name of a product that predated MDF by a zillion years or so. The base material was 3\4" (18mm) finger-jointed pine material and came in sheets of 600mm? 900mm? 1200? wide by various lengths.

A typical chippie of that era would probably use it when he\she (tho not many 'she-people' were in the trade in those days) wanted to build a cupboard or similar, and when they wanted a wide panel, would have had no other option than to glue 200mm or 300mm boards together to get the same result.  

I think this stuff was called 'Bondwood'.

But what I'm desperately trying to remember was what its successor was called, and this was 'Bondwood' with a layer of hardboard (and if you don't know what THAT was, read no further) on each side. Probably 1/8th inch (or 3mm in digi-speak). So you got a layer of finger-jointed pine boards covered by a skin of hardboard.

I've lost track of how many houses I outfitted with kitchen cupboards that I built from this stuff, but it was a lot. It was pretty much par for the course in those days: build the house then outfit the kitchen.

But not enough, maybe, so that I can recall the name of this product.

So, any elderly chippie or builder able to comment? What was this product called? Bondwood with a layer of hardboard on each side?

Thanks for reading :-)