Learning About Wood: how to become a successful woodworker.
Learn the essential aspects of wood characteristics in this comprehensive course. Discover the importance of understanding wood grain, spotting defects, selecting suitable wood species, and more. Suitable for beginners and experienced woodworkers alike. Enhance the attractiveness and structural integrity of your future projects.
What you’ll learn
- The structure of wood
- Parts of a tree trunk
- A description of some wood species
- The importnace of understanding wood grain
- How and why wood moves
- To spot common defects and how to deal with them
- How to avoid the “fatal flaws”
- The terminology of wood dimensions
- How to figure out the quantity of wood to buy
- The characteristics of veneers and plywood
- Some tips on how to buy wood
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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.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners interested in becoming woodworkers
- Intermediate and more experienced woodworkers
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