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Different Woods and their performance characteristics all of their…
Different Woods and their performance characteristics all of their applications.
Hard Woods
Oak
Properties: Hard, tough, attractive grain, good weather resistance. Contains tannic acid which will corrode steel screws of fixings.
Uses: furniture, flooring, boat building, cladding, interior and exterior joinery.
Ash
Properties: Tough, attractive open grain pattern, which makes it more flexible.
Uses: tool handles, ladders, sports goods and laminating
Mahogany
Properties: can contain interlocking grain making it more difficult to work. Rich, dark red colour.
Uses: indoor furniture, shop fittings and cabinets, veneers commonly used on manufactures boards.
Teak
Properties: hard, tough, straight grain, natural oils resist moisture, acids and alkalis.
Uses: outdoor furniture, laboratory benches, traditional boat decks.
Birch
Properties: hard straight close grained, resists warping.
Uses: furniture, indoor panelling, veneers used for birch-faced plywood construction.
Beech
Properties: tough, close grained, hard, available in steamed (white colour) and un-steamed (pink tinge)
Uses: chairs, chopping boards, tools (mallet), steam bent laminated furniture, turned bowls.
Soft Wood
Pine (European redwood)
Properties: straight grain, knotty, can contain resinous knots
Uses: construction work, roof beams and timber frame construction interior joinery
Spruce
Properties: straight grain, resistant to splitting.
Uses: indoor furniture
Douglas fir
Properties: straight or slightly wavy grain, few knots, stable, good resistance to corrosion
Uses: veneers, plywood construction joinery and construction work
Larch
Properties: hard, tough, attractive grain pattern fades to silver upon exposure outside
Cedar
Properties: straight grain, can corrode ferrous metals due acid nature, low density, good sound damping rot and insect resistant.
Uses: exterior cladding, sheds, greenhouses, beehives, interior panelling.
Manufactured Boards
Plywood
Properties: thin layers of wood are placed and glued at 90 degrees to one another and compressed to from the board. good strength in all directions, no grain weakness, always has an odd number of layers.
Uses: structural work, desktops, indoor furniture, floorboards
Marine Plywood
Properties: similar to construction to plywood but is gap and void free and uses specialist water boil-proof (WBP) glue to provide resistance to moisture. some higher-quality marine plywood is also resistant to fungal attacks.
Uses: boat dashboards, boat lockers and panelling
Aeroply
Properties: plywood made from high-quality timber such as birch. available in very thin sheets, lightweight, easy to bend around a support frame.
Uses: gliders, laminated furniture, laser-cut projects, jewellery items.
flexible Plywood
Properties: an odd number of layers glued together with the two outer layers made from open-grained timber which allows the sheet to flex. bent and glued around a former to achieve a solid shape.
Uses: laminated furniture, curved panels.
Chipboard
Properties: wood chips compressed with resin such as urea formaldehyde.
Uses: often veneered or covered with polymer laminate, kitchen worktops and units, shelving and 'flat pack' furniture.
MDF
Properties: MDF is compressed wood fibers, although sometimes urea formaldehyde is added as an additional resin. it has two smooth faces, available in either standard grade or veneered with a layer of timber.
Uses: model or mould making furniture items such as bookcases, cabinets and desks.
Veneers
Properties: thin slices of wood less than 3 mm thick.
Uses: decorative coverings for manufactured boards.
MF laminates
Properties: thin sheets of MF polymer, hard, tough, chemical resistant.
Uses: decorative covering for chipboard for kitchen worktops, etc.