Getting Started With Woodworking
Whether you engage in woodworking as a hobby or profession, you will encounter different materials other than wood. Knowing how to work with non-wood materials will give you an added advantage in your chosen skill. We are all familiar with plywood. However, another material that appears frequently is melamine. Although you may be familiar with … Read more
A woodworker expects to work with wood. That is an indisputable fact. However, how do we define wood? In a broader sense, we call wood in the form of raw material timber or lumber. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines timber as: “wood suitable for building or for carpentry.” The wood described here usually is solid wood … Read more
Any woodworker is likely to work a lot with wood veneers, especially those who work on wooden furniture. A veneer is a thin slice of fine, expensive wood that we typically apply to cheaper wood. The purpose of using veneer is that we get the finish of expensive wood at a fraction of the cost. … Read more
As a woodworker, you need to know a great deal about various tools and the purpose they serve. We often tend to exclude axes from the category of woodworking tools. However, axes help us to chop wood to get the basic raw material for our woodworking products. Hence, you need to consider these tools as … Read more
A veneer is a thinly-sliced wood that is fixed to wooden surfaces to give them the appearance of solid wood. A veneer is very thin, usually with a thickness of less than an eighth of an inch. The veneer is bonded to a substrate also usually made from an affordable type of wood giving it … Read more
We all know that you can get numerous types of drill bits for drilling holes in various kinds of material. However, what you probably don’t know is that there are literally over a hundred different types of woodworking drill bits. Hence, we get a wide variety of different kinds of drill bits for wood as … Read more
You will find that wood glue is the one thing that joins all of your woodworking projects together. Literally! It is such a vital part of any woodworking project that you need to know about the different types of wood glue and how to use them. Your choice of glue will depend on the different … Read more
We usually consider chisels under two main categories. The first category includes chisels for general use (click here to see our list of woodworking chisels). The second type of tool comes under the category of wood carving which will talk about below. Anyone who is into wood carving will have a vast collection of wood … Read more
Among woodworking hand tools, we could consider the most indispensable as chisels. However, there are so many different types of woodworking chisels, that it’s easy to get thoroughly confused. If you want to be a competent woodworker, you will need to use appropriate chisels for the job at hand. A chisel consists of a long … Read more
We all know what a hammer is. But, did you know that there are at least 40 different types of hammers? Even though all the different kinds of hammers are not those that we use in woodworking, there is quite a number of them that we use for woodworking. In this article, we touch upon … Read more