@janpiotrowski86 said:
Is there any work around this bug or is it game over whilst using Sketchup 2017?
The only work around that I know of would be to make the texture in an image editor or use an actual image of plywood and import one of those as a texture.
Unfortunately bug fixes in an older version are incredibly unlikely after a newer version is released. At this point, about 6 months beyond the release of SU2018, it's safe to say there won't be any updates to SU2017.