Name Cherry
Location Eastern North America
Texture/Grain Fine/Closed
Specific Gravity 0.50
Hardness Medium
Strength Medium
T/R Stability 7.1/3.7%

 

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Ailments, wood-related -- Health Hazards

Alder, Red -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Angiosperms -- Wood Botany 

Angle

Arkansas stone -- Sharpening Tools and Materials

Ash -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Aspen -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Auger

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Balsa --  Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Bark -- Wood Grain

Bark side -- Planing Know-How

Basswood -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Beech -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Bending strength -- Wood Strength

Bevel

bullet Double -- Sharpening Knives
bullet Hollow -- Sharpening Knives
bullet Jointer, cutting on a -- Jointing Know-How
bullet Single -- Sharpening Knives

Birch, Yellow -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Birds eye figure -- Wood Grain

Black oxide -- Preventing and Removing Rust

Boards

bullet Busting down  -- Truing Lumber
bullet Squaring -- Truing Lumber
bullet Truing -- Truing Lumber

Bocote -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Botany, wood -- Wood Botany

Bound water - Wood Movement

Brad-point bit, sharpening  -- Sharpening Drill Bits

Bubinga -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Buffing compound -- Sharpening Tools and Materials

Burl figure -- Wood Grain

Burnisher -- Sharpening Scrapers

Burr

Busting down boards -- Truing Lumber

Butternut -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

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Cambium -- Wood Grain

Carbide, sharpening -- Touching Up High Speed Cutters

Cedar, Aromatic Red -- Mechanical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart)

Cedar, Western Red -- Mechanical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart)

Cellulose -- Wood Strength

Ceramic stones -- Sharpening Tools and Materials

Chamfer

bullet Jointer, cutting on a -- Jointing Know-How

Changing shape, wood -- Wood Movement

Chelator -- Preventing and Removing Rust

Chemical attributes -- Health Hazards, Physical Properties, Wood Botany

Cherry -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Chestnut, Wormy -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Chisels, sharpening -- Sharpening Chisels and Plane Irons, Sharpening Skews and Gouges, Sharpening Parting Tools

Classroom, Virtual -- Introduction to Woodworking Demonstrations

Clearance Angle -- How Tools Cut Wood

Closed grain -- Physical Properties, Wood Botany, Wood Grain

Cocobolo -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Color, wood -- Physical Properties

Compressive strength -- Wood Strength

Cove

Crotch figure -- Wood Grain

Crown molding -- Cutting Coves on a Table Saw

Curly figure -- Wood Grain

Cutting

bullet Angle -- How Tools Cut Wood
bullet Definition -- How Tools Cut Wood
bullet Downhill -- Jointing Know-How,
bullet Edge -- How Tools Cut Wood
bullet Geometry -- How Tools Cut Wood
bullet Uphill -- Jointing Know-How Planing Know-How
bullet With the grain -- Jointing Know-How. Planing Know-How

Cypress -- Mechanical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart)

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Demonstration, Video -- Introduction to Woodworking Demonstrations

Diamond stones -- Sharpening Tools and Materials

Direction, grain -- Wood Strength

Distortion, wood -- Wood Movement

Drill bit sharpening guide -- Sharpening Drill Bits (jig)

Drying, shop -- Selecting Lumber

Dull Tools  -- How Tools Cut Wood

Dust

bullet Collection -- Health Hazards
bullet Mask -- Health Hazards

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 "Abundant to all the needs of man, how poor the world would be without wood."
Eric Sloane in Reverence for Wood

 

A B C D Index for the Workshop Companion,
essential information about wood, woodwork, and woodworking.
By Nick Engler.

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