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  2. Riving knife - Wikipedia

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    Saw blade "grabbing" occurs more frequently during ripping than cross-cutting (cuts made to wood or stone across its main grain or axis). It can occur with both hand saws and bandsaws but is more dangerous with a circular saw as areas of the circular blade close to the cutting area are moving in different directions. If a bandsaw grabs, the ...

  3. Router (woodworking) - Wikipedia

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    A tool similar to a router, but designed to hold smaller cutting bits—thereby making it easier to handle for small jobs—is a laminate trimmer. A related tool, called a spindle moulder (UK) or shaper (North America), is used to hold larger cutter heads and can be used for deeper or larger-diameter cuts. Another related machine is the pin ...

  4. Wood veneer - Wikipedia

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    Veneers are cut as thin as 0.64 mm (1 ⁄ 40 in). Depending on the cutting process used by the veneer manufacturer, very little wood is wasted by the saw blade thickness, known as the saw kerf. Some manufacturers use a very wide knife to slice off the thin veneer pieces. In this process, none of the wood is wasted.

  5. Dado (joinery) - Wikipedia

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    A dado (US and Canada, / ˈ d eɪ d oʊ /), housing (UK) or trench (Europe) is a slot or trench cut into the surface of a piece of machinable material, usually wood. When viewed in cross-section, a dado has three sides. A dado is cut across, or perpendicular to, the grain and is thus differentiated from a groove which

  6. Circular saw - Wikipedia

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    A hand-held circular saw is the most conventional circular saw. This miter saw is a circular saw mounted to swing to crosscut wood at an angle. A table saw. Tractor-driven circular saw. A circular saw or a buzz saw, is a power-saw using a toothed or abrasive disc or blade to cut different materials using a rotary motion spinning around an arbor.

  7. Butt joint - Wikipedia

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    In solid timber, docking of members for a butt joint is usually a crosscut, so a crosscut saw is best for this job. When working with sheet goods, there is no distinction between crosscut and rip cut. The joint members can be docked by any of the following methods: Carcase butt joints. Crosscut saw; Circular saw and straightedge; Table saw ...

  8. Miter saw - Wikipedia

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    A motorized miter saw. A miter saw or mitre saw is a saw used to make accurate crosscuts and miters in a workpiece by positioning a mounted blade onto a board. A miter saw in its earliest form was composed of a back saw in a miter box, but in modern implementation consists of a powered circular saw that can be positioned at a variety of angles and lowered onto a board positioned against a ...

  9. Lamination - Wikipedia

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    A laminate is a layered object or material assembled using heat, pressure, welding, or adhesives. [1] Various coating machines, machine presses and calendering equipment are used. In particular, laminating paper in plastic makes it sturdy, waterproof, and erasable.