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DT - Wood and Manmade Boards - Coggle Diagram
DT - Wood and Manmade Boards
Soft Woods
Coniferous
Fast Growing
Economical
Quite generic
Rough sawn
Straight from the saw and rough
Used for structural joinery
Used for building work or exterior carpentry
PAR - Planed all round
For joinery
Building where accuracy is required
exposed
Hardwoods
From deciduous trees
tend to be slower growing
More dense
More Durable
Beech
Doesn't splinter
Relatively lightweight
clear grain
Pale colour
Used in table tops, kids toys, wooden spoons etc.
Non toxic
Can be steam bent
Teak
Dark in colour
Hard
Durable
Splinters badly
Useful outside
generally from rainforests
Oak
Very tough
heavy
Natural oils
expensive
holds detail
alternative to teak
Ash
Strong
slight elasticity
good for tool handles
straight grain
eaisier to work with than oak
Manmade boards
Plywood
Thin veneers of wood
natural wood look
large sheet sizes
doesn't warp as much
range of thicknesses
can be finished
MDF
Easy to break
basically denser cardboard
weaker than Plywood
looks bad
normally laminated
absorbs water
Blockwood
Stable
Strong
can be used for expensive furniture
Hardboard
similar to MDF
less dense
used on the back of furniture
cheap