My husband cuts plywood in different sizes that I cover and use. They are super strong.
Are you transporting it assembled or unassembled? (Assembled would be VERY heavy to carry!)
If you transport unassembled, the cake drum should work fine because it's only going to hold the one cake. Once you assemble it, it's on a table ... the cake drum won't crush.
When you buy the plywood, play with it in the store .... just because it's wood, doesn't mean it's strong enough. If there's flexibility in the wood, then it's no stronger than a couple of cake cardboards. But careful again, that a heftier piece of wood will be really heavy to carry with a cake on it. Done both ...that's how I learned.
indydebi,
How heavy do you think it will be? I'm also doing a 5 tier square 6,8,10,12,14" for next weekend & I have the sps & was thinking of having 2 strong men carry it for me, about 20' to the van & the venue shouldn't be too far either. I've got a 1/2" plywood & it's not at all flexible, pretty solid.
When I sat it down, my arms felt like rubber bands! Sorry to high jack this tread but I have a question
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I use all masonite throughout my stacked cakes (under each tier, as well as the baseboard).
How do you cut the masonite flush with the cake on the tiers for decorating as after baking the cake might shrink a bit. We learned today in a cake class that after you attach your cake to a cake board you will probably need to cut it a bit so that it is perfectly flush for decorating and tiering? I hope I'm making sence. Thanks
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