Learning About Wood: how to become a successful woodworker.
Learning About Wood: how to become a successful woodworker. Describes woods structure, characteristics, and limitations – things that every woodworker should know.
Course Description
This course is designed to give you, the student, a grasp of wood characteristics which will result in more attractiveness and structural integrity in all your future projects. You will learn:
– the five parts of a tree trunk and the two that are most serviceable
– how wood structure makes end grain gluing worthless
– how to read wood grain and why its important
– how wood grain relates to wood movement
– why reading wood grain is critical to proper planing direction
– about wood strength and how heavy loads are handled with wood in compression
– how to avoid boards with uncorrectable defects
– how to select good boards
– what species and types of wood are suitable for your projects
– to do a “cut list” to figure out how much wood to buy for a project
– characteristics of veneers, plywood, and marine plywood
– when it is necessary to use dimensionally stable material.
