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Most workbenches are made from solid wood; the most expensive and desirable are made of solid hardwood, with tops laminated lengthwise in edge-grain butcher block fashion. Benches may also be made from plywood and Masonite or hardboard, and bases of treated pine and even steel. There are trade offs with the choice of construction material.
By allowing the wood panel to float, it can expand and contract without damaging the door. A typical panel would be cut to allow 1/4" (5 mm) between itself and the bottom of the groove in the frame. It is common to place some sort of elastic material in the groove between the edge of the panel and the frame before assembly.
A rabbet. A rabbet (American English) or rebate (British English) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood.When viewed in cross-section, a rabbet is two-sided and open to the edge or end of the surface into which it is cut.
This procedure is often performed prior to edge jointing so that the board has a flat reference face for subsequent operations. Straightening 'crown', the curved edge of a bowed board: Straightening is a successive approximation sequence. Successive cuts are made from each end, made successively longer each time the board is turned end for end.
Coping or scribing is the woodworking technique of shaping the end of a moulding or frame component to neatly fit the contours of an abutting member. Joining tubular members in metalworking is also referred to as a cope, or sometimes a "fish mouth joint" or saddle joint .
Normally, the desired outcome of jointing is an edge which is straight along its length and perpendicular to the face of the board. However, there is another technique often used when gluing up panels, referred to as a sprung joint. [1] In this technique, the desired outcome is an edge which is slightly concave along its length.
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Craftsman No. 5 jack plane A hand plane in use. A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools used for the same types of larger tasks, but are unsuitable for fine-scale planing, where a miniature hand plane is used.