Learning About Wood: how to become a successful woodworker.

Learning About Wood: how to become a successful woodworker.

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.

Describes woods structure, characteristics, and limitations - things that every woodworker should know.

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What you will learn

• The structure of wood
• Parts of a tree trunk
• A description of some wood species

Rating: 4.35

Level: All Levels

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Brian Steckler