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An offcut or off-cut is material left over after a workpiece is cut or processed, such as in masonry, metalworking, woodworking, industrial or domestic food processing, and textile manufacturing.
Woodchips, with hand for scale. Woodchips are small- to medium-sized pieces of wood formed by cutting or chipping larger pieces of wood such as trees, branches, logging residues, stumps, roots, and wood waste.
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]
2 Hardwoods (angiosperms) 3 Pseudowoods. 4 See also. 5 References. 6 External links. Toggle the table of contents. List of woods. 12 languages.
A method for logs 16–19 in (41–48 cm) A method for logs over 19 in (48 cm) Quarter sawing or quartersawing is a woodworking process that produces quarter-sawn or quarter-cut boards in the rip cutting of logs into lumber.
Hardwood from deciduous species, such as oak, normally shows annual growth rings, but these may be absent in some tropical hardwoods. [3] Hardwoods have a more complex structure than softwoods and are often much slower growing as a result. The dominant feature separating "hardwoods" from softwoods is the presence of pores, or vessels. [4]
Large self-supporting wooden roof built for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Engineered wood, also called mass timber, composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation [1] to form ...
A continuous sheet of veneer coming out of a peeling rotary lathe. Veneer is obtained either by "peeling" the trunk of a tree or by slicing large rectangular blocks of wood known as flitches.