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Lumber is the most common and widely used method of sawing logs. Plain sawn lumber is produced by making the first cut on a tangent to the circumference of the log. Each additional cut is then made parallel to the one before. This method produces the widest possible boards with the least amount of log waste.
2. (n.) Any tool used for drilling holes, such as a chisel used in combination with a mallet. Decay in timber caused by fungal growth, usually in a moist, stagnant, poorly ventilated atmosphere. A system used to capture wood dust from woodworking machines such as a table saw, miter saw, router, planer, or jointer.
When rough lumber is reduced to dimensional lumber, a large electric motor or internal combustion engine will drive a thickness planer that removes a certain percentage of excess wood to create a uniform, smooth surface on all four sides of the board and in specialty woods, may also plane the cut edges.
A lumber edger is a device with saws used to straighten and smooth rough lumber or bowed stock by making a cut along the sides of the boards. The result of this process is dimensional lumber. [1][2] In a saw mill the edger is next in line from the head saw. The feed and press rollers on the edger are usually powered, passing the lumber through ...
Wood finishing refers to the process of refining or protecting a wooden surface, especially in the production of furniture where typically it represents between 5 and 30% of manufacturing costs. [1][2] Finishing is the final step of the manufacturing process that gives wood surfaces desirable characteristics, including enhanced appearance and ...
Historically, wooden shingles were usually thin (3 ⁄ 8 to 3 ⁄ 4 in or 10 to 19 mm), relatively narrow (3 to 8 in or 76 to 203 mm), of varying length (14 to 36 in or 360 to 910 mm), and almost always planed or knifed smooth. The traditional method for making wooden shingles before the 19th century was to rive (hand split) them from straight ...
Shiplap is either rough-sawn 25 mm (1 in) or milled 19 mm ( in) pine or similarly inexpensive wood between 76 and 254 mm (3 and 10 in) wide with a 9.5–12.7 mm (– in) rabbet on opposite sides of each edge. [1] The rabbet allows the boards to overlap in this area. The profile of each board partially overlaps that of the board next to it ...
Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers [1] or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement. [2] R. Bruce Hoadley wrote that grain is a "confusingly versatile term" with numerous different uses, including the direction of the wood cells (e.g., straight grain, spiral grain), surface appearance or figure, growth-ring placement (e.g., vertical grain), plane of the cut (e.g ...