Art,
A couple points you missed: STock laminations are not 90% to each other. Even if they did, there are woods tough enough to compete on strength. There are others able to compete on hardness. Yet others competing on stability. A few spank them on all counts.
Mesquite, some walnut, mountain mahoghany are three laminate cannot match in any of the categories.
Plywood is stronger than its component woods because of the cross grain laminations. What if you laminated the above woods in a cross grain fashion?
