Firstly, it's truly fantastic to see people talking about our product and discussing it's uses and intricacies in such detail. Thank you for that.
In reading your comments you have already answered many questions but there are a few unanswered that I'd like to address:
1) Alan Goldhammer mentioned the weight of the panels. You can find this out very easily by going to our website and adding a blank panel to the cart. Once added, and the options (size, material etc) have been made, the shipping calculator on the right will show you the total weight of your selected panels.
2) Neil of Dane Creek (thank you for your awesome blogpost btw) mentioned that he might try 3M Super 77 next time. I actually used this product for about a year when I was mounting my wife's photography to Plywood panels and selling them at the Portland Saturday Market back in 2005/6 prior to starting Plywerk. However, after about a year I started to get people coming back to me with peeling images. Next time I was at market I found an image that I knew had been around for over 6 months, pulled it out the bag, pulled the corner and the whole print peeled of the wood with zero effort. It felt like pulling of an apple iphone static screen protector if you know what I mean.
My wife and I stopped production, pulled out of the market and I spent the next 6 months researching adhesives. The one we use now is an even better derivative of the one that came out best in my R&D back then. We have personally got Plywerk (even one in our bathroom, next to the shower, not recommended btw
) that have been going strong for almost six years now with no signs of peeling. I would also like to note that since that time we've put in many hours of continued R&D. We take great pride in our product and as such run the company with a ideology of constant improvement.
3) Jim Ascher posed the idea of "An additional advantage of this would be to mount a print of a size smaller than the panel providing then for a wood border around the print, which might be attractive." We have tried this and it's not easy. Alignment (i.e. having a consistently sized border) is an obvious problem. However, we are working on launching bevelled Edge Plywerk as an alternative to this idea. You can see some of our beta's right here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/plywerk/sets/72157628504836415.
I hope that answers some more questions and helps you decide wether or not Plywerk is an option for you. Please feel free to contact us with more questions. We love nothing more than nerding out about our product. For more nerd-like details you can also visit the Techspecs and FAQ pages on our website.
You should also know that I just switched to a purple mouthwash and could not be happier.
Cheers, Kjell