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While there are an abundant number of hardwood species, only 200 are common enough and pliable enough to be used for woodworking. [12] Hardwoods have a wide variety of properties, making it easy to find a hardwood to suit nearly any purpose, but they are especially suitable for outdoor use due to their strength and resilience to rot and decay. [10]
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials ...
Carpenter, a craftsperson who performs carpentry, building mainly with wood. [1] Among carpentry's subsidiary trades are those of cabinet maker and millworker, cladder , framer , joiner , deck builder, furniture maker, interior trim carpenter, exterior trim carpenter, siding installer, and even a coffin maker.
A jack plane is a general-purpose woodworking bench plane, used for dressing timber down to size in preparation for truing and/or edge jointing. It is usually the first plane used on rough stock, but for rougher work it can be preceded by the scrub plane. [1] The versatility of the jack plane has led to it being the most common bench plane in use.
The part of woodworking that involves joining individual pieces of wood to produce more complex items; the art of framing, joining, dressing, and fixing the finishings of a building. [1] joint The connection between two pieces of timber. jointer. Also called a joiner. 1. A power plane used to straighten boards and square edges. 2.
In woodworking and carpentry, hand saws, also known as "panel saws", are used to cut pieces of wood into different shapes. This is usually done in order to join the pieces together and carve a wooden object. They usually operate by having a series of sharp points of some substance that is harder than the wood being cut.
Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining pieces of wood, engineered lumber, or synthetic substitutes (such as laminate), to produce more complex items. Some woodworking joints employ mechanical fasteners, bindings, or adhesives, while others use only wood elements (such as dowels or plain mortise and tenon fittings).
Woodworking is the building, making or carving of something using wood Subcategories. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. B ...