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206 relations: Acacia, Adze, Alan Peters, Alexander Grabovetskiy, Alnus glutinosa, Altar, Alvar Aalto, American colonial architecture, Ancient Egypt, André Jacob Roubo, Animal glue, Art Deco, Axe, Ébéniste, Bae Se-hwa, Bandsaw, Bed, Blade, Boat building, Bow drill, Broad-leaved tree, Bronze, Bronze Age, Butt joint, Buxus, Cabinetry, Carpentry, Cedrus, Cedrus libani, Chair, Charles H. Hayward, Chest (furniture), Chestnut, Chinese furniture, Chisel, Clacton-on-Sea, Clamp (tool), Claw hammer, Clay, CNC wood router, Coffin, Combination square, Conifer, Contemporary architecture, Copper, Cult image, David J. Marks, De architectura, Deforestation, Denmark, ... Expand index (156 more) »
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Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
Adze
An adze or adz is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel.
Alan Peters
Alan George Peters OBE (17 January 1933 – 11 October 2009) was a British furniture designer maker and one of the very few direct links with the Arts and Crafts Movement, having apprenticed to Edward Barnsley.
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Alexander Grabovetskiy
Alexander Grabovetskiy (born July 4, 1973) is a Russian-American Master wood carver.
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Alnus glutinosa
Alnus glutinosa, the common alder, black alder, European alder, European black alder, or just alder, is a species of tree in the family Betulaceae, native to most of Europe, southwest Asia and northern Africa.
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Altar
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes.
Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.
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American colonial architecture
American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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André Jacob Roubo
André Jacob Roubo (1739–1791) was a French carpenter, cabinetmaker and author.
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Animal glue
Animal glue is an adhesive that is created by prolonged boiling of animal connective tissue in a process called rendering.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
Axe
An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol.
Ébéniste
An ébéniste is a cabinet-maker, particularly one who works in ebony. Woodworking and Ébéniste are crafts.
Bae Se-hwa
Bae Se-hwa (배세화; born 1980 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean artist.
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Bandsaw
A bandsaw (also written band saw) is a power saw with a long, sharp blade consisting of a continuous band of toothed metal stretched between two or more wheels to cut material.
Bed
A bed is an item of furniture that is used as a place to sleep, rest, and relax.
Blade
A blade is the sharp, cutting portion of a tool, weapon, or machine, specifically designed to puncture, chop, slice, or scrape surfaces or materials.
Boat building
Boat building is the design and construction of boats (instead of the larger ships) — and their on-board systems.
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Bow drill
A bow drill is a simple hand-operated type of tool, consisting of a rod (the spindle or drill shaft) that is set in rapid rotary motion by means of a cord wrapped around it, kept taut by a bow which is pushed back and forth with one hand.
Broad-leaved tree
A broad-leaved, broad-leaf, or broadleaf tree is any tree within the diverse botanical group of angiosperms that has flat leaves and produces seeds inside of fruits.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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Butt joint
A butt joint is a wood joint in which the end of a piece of material is simply placed (or “butted”) against another piece.
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Buxus
Buxus is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae.
Cabinetry
A cabinet is a case or cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying items. Woodworking and Cabinetry are crafts.
Carpentry
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Woodworking and Carpentry are Scoutcraft.
Cedrus
Cedrus, with the common English name cedar, is a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae (subfamily Abietoideae).
Cedrus libani
Cedrus libani, the cedar of Lebanon or Lebanese cedar, is a species of tree in the genus Cedrus, a part of the pine family, native to the mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean basin.
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Chair
A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest.
Charles H. Hayward
Charles Harold Hayward (26 April 1898 – 5 July 1998) was an English cabinet maker, editor of The Woodworker magazine, illustrator, and author of numerous books on woodworking.
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Chest (furniture)
A chest (also called coffer or kist) is a form of furniture typically of a rectangular structure with four walls and a removable or hinged lid, used for storage, usually of personal items.
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Chestnut
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae.
Chinese furniture
The forms of Chinese furniture evolved along three distinct lineages which date back to 1000 BC: frame and panel, yoke and rack (based on post-and-rail seen in architecture) and bamboo construction techniques.
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Chisel
A chisel is a wedged hand tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade, for carving or cutting a hard material (e.g. wood, stone, or metal).
Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea, often simply called Clacton, is a seaside town and resort in the county of Essex, on the east coast of England.
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Clamp (tool)
A clamp is a fastening device used to hold or secure objects tightly together to prevent movement or separation through the application of inward pressure.
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Claw hammer
A claw hammer is a hammer primarily used in carpentry for driving nails into or pulling them from wood.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
CNC wood router
A CNC wood router is a CNC router tool that creates objects from wood.
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Coffin
A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.
Combination square
A combination square is a multi-purpose measuring and marking tool used in metalworking, woodworking, and stonemasonry.
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Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
Contemporary architecture
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Cult image
In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents.
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David J. Marks
David J. Marks is a woodworker living in Santa Rosa, California.
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De architectura
De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects.
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Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
Douglas fir
The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae.
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Drill
A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners.
Egyptians
Egyptians (translit,; translit,; remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt.
Eucalyptus marginata
Eucalyptus marginata, commonly known as jarrah, djarraly in Noongar language and historically as Swan River mahogany, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
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Evert Sodergren
Evert Sodergren (July 19, 1920 – June 8, 2013) was a leading studio furniture maker based in Seattle.
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Experience
Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes.
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Feng shui
Feng shui, sometimes called Chinese geomancy, is a traditional practice that originated in Ancient China and claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment.
Ferrous metallurgy
Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys.
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Ficus sycomorus
Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry (because the leaves resemble those of the mulberry), sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times.
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Fine Woodworking
Fine Woodworking is a woodworking magazine published by Taunton Press in Newtown, Connecticut, USA.
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Fir
Firs are evergreen coniferous trees belonging to the genus Abies in the family Pinaceae.
Fire hardening
Fire hardening, also known as "fire-danubing", is the process of removing moisture from wood, changing its structure and material properties, by charring it over or directly in a fire or a bed of coals.
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Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.
Flowerpot
A flowerpot, planter, planterette or plant pot, is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed.
Folding chair
A folding chair is a type of folding furniture, a light, portable chair that folds flat or to a smaller size, and can be stored in a stack, in a row, or on a cart.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Frank E. Cummings III
Frank E. Cummings III (born 1938) is an artist and professor of fine arts at California State University, Fullerton.
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French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
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Furniture
Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks).
George Collings
George Collings was a carpenter, joiner and author.
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George Nakashima
George Katsutoshi Nakashima (中島勝寿 Nakashima Katsutoshi, May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement.
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German National Library of Science and Technology
The German National Library of Science and Technology (Technische Informationsbibliothek), abbreviated TIB, is the national library of the Federal Republic of Germany for all fields of engineering, technology, and the natural sciences.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Glossary of woodworking
This glossary of woodworking lists a number of specialized terms and concepts used in woodworking, carpentry, and related disciplines.
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Green building and wood
Green building is a technique that aims to create structures that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout their lifecycle – including siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.
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Green woodworking
Green woodworking (also written greenwoodworking) is a form of woodworking that uses unseasoned or "green" timber.
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Greta Hopkinson
Greta Hopkinson (born Greta Karin Louise Stromeyer, 4 October 1901 – September 1993) was a British wood sculptor.
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Gymnosperm
The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes, forming the clade Gymnospermae.
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Hand saw
In woodworking and carpentry, hand saws, also known as "panel saws", are used to cut pieces of wood into different shapes.
Hand tool
A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor.
Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.
Henning Engelsen
Henning Engelsen (5 February 1918 – 8 September 2005) was a Norwegian woodcarver and illustrator.
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Henry O. Studley
Henry O. Studley (1838–1925) was an organ and piano maker, carpenter, stonemason, and Freemason who worked for the Smith Organ Co.
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History of construction
The history of construction traces the changes in building tools, methods, techniques and systems used in the field of construction.
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History of wood carving
Wood carving is one of the oldest arts of humankind.
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Homo
Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans) and a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans.
Intarsia
Intarsia is a form of Arab wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. Woodworking and Intarsia are crafts.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
James Krenov
James Krenov (October 31, 1920 – September 9, 2009) was a woodworker and studio furnituremaker.
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Japanese carpentry
Japanese carpentry was developed more than a millennium ago that is known for its ability to create everything from temples to houses to tea houses to furniture by wood with the use of few nails.
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Jere Osgood
Jere Osgood (7 February 1936 - 10 October 2023) was an American studio furniture maker, and teacher of furniture and woodworking.
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Jigsaw (tool)
A jigsaw is a reciprocating saw that can cut irregular curves, such as stenciled designs, in wood, metal, or other materials.
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John Boson
John Boson was a cabinet maker and carver whose work is associated with that of William Kent.
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John Makepeace
John Makepeace OBE FCSD (born John Makepeace Smith; 6 July 1939) is a British furniture designer and maker.
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Joinery
Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining pieces of wood, engineered lumber, or synthetic substitutes (such as laminate), to produce more complex items.
Jointer
A jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer, and sometimes also as a buzzer or flat top) is a woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length.
Judy Kensley McKie
Judy Kensley McKie (born 1944) is an American artist, furniture designer, and furniture maker.
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Kalambo Falls
The Kalambo Falls on the Kalambo River is a single-drop waterfall on the border of Zambia and Rukwa Region, Tanzania at the southeast end of Lake Tanganyika.
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La Tène culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.
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Lath art
Lath art is a form of woodworking folk art for making rustic pictures out of strips out of old "lath" from "plaster and lath" walls.
Leather
Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.
Ligna
The LIGNA (ligna lat.
Linear Pottery culture
The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing.
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List of archaeological sites by country
This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories.
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Lithic analysis
In archaeology, lithic analysis is the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts using basic scientific techniques.
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Lu Ban
Lu Ban (–444BC).
Luthier
A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.
Marionette
A marionette (marionnette) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations.
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Mark Lindquist
Mark Lindquist (born 1949) is an American sculptor in wood, artist, author, and photographer.
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Marquetry
Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs.
Matthias Pliessnig
Matthias Pliessnig is an acclaimed furniture designer based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Medium-density fibreboard
Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) is an engineered wood product made by breaking down hardwood or softwood residuals into wood fibre, often in a defibrator, combining it with wax and a resin binder, and forming it into panels by applying high temperature and pressure.
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Metal
A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.
Milicia excelsa
Milicia excelsa is a tree species from the genus Milicia of the family Moraceae.
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Millwork
Millwork is historically any wood-mill produced decorative material used in building construction.
Minimalism
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Miter saw
A miter saw or mitre saw is a saw used to make accurate crosscuts and miters in a workpiece by positioning a mounted blade onto a board.
Mortise and tenon
A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material.
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Mousterian
The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.
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Museo Egizio
The Museo Egizio or Egyptian Museum is an archaeological museum in Turin, Italy, specializing in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology.
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Natural History (Pliny)
The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.
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Neanderthal
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
New Kingdom of Egypt
The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, was the ancient Egyptian state between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.
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Nick Offerman
Nicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor.
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Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
Norm Abram
Norm Abram (born October 3, 1949) is an American carpenter, writer, and television host best known for his work on the PBS television programs This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop.
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Numerical control
In machining, numerical control, also called computer numerical control (CNC), is the automated control of tools by means of a computer.
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Oak
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.
Pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.
Pinus halepensis
Pinus halepensis, commonly known as the Aleppo pine, also known as the Jerusalem pine, is a pine native to the Mediterranean region.
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Plane (tool)
A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Plywood
Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having both glued with each other at right angle.
Power tool
A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labor used with hand tools.
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Prehistoric Egypt
Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human settlement and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.
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Prioria balsamifera
Prioria balsamifera, the agba or tola, is a tall forest tree in the family Fabaceae.
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Random orbital sander
A random orbital sander (also known as a palm sander) is a hand-held power tool which sands in a random-orbit action.
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Retro style
Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes.
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Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
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Rope
A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibres, or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.
Rosanne Somerson
Rosanne Somerson (born June 21, 1954) is an American-born woodworker, furniture designer/maker, educator, and former President of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
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Roy Underhill
Roy Underhill (born December 22, 1950).
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Sal Maccarone
Sal Maccarone is an American author, sculptor, designer and kinetic artist.
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Sam Maloof
Sam Maloof (January 24, 1916 – May 21, 2009), Press-Enterprise, October 5, 2006.
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Sander
A sander is a power tool used to smooth surfaces by abrasion with sandpaper.
Sandpaper
Sheets of sandpaper with different grit sizes (40 (coarse), 80, 150, 240, 600 (fine)) Sandpaper, also known as glasspaper or as coated abrasive, is a type of material that consists of sheets of paper or cloth with an abrasive substance glued to one face.
Saw
A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge used to cut through material.
Saw pit
A saw pit or sawpit is a pit over which timber is positioned to be sawed with a long two-handled saw, usually a whipsaw, by two people, one standing above the timber and the other below.
Schöningen
Schöningen is a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Scroll saw
A scroll saw is a small electric or pedal-operated saw used to cut intricate curves in wood, metal, or other materials.
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Second Dynasty of Egypt
The Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt (or Dynasty II, c. 2890 – c. 2686 BC) is the latter of the two dynasties of the Egyptian Archaic Period, when the seat of government was centred at Thinis.
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Segmented turning
Segmented turning, also known as polychromatic turning, is a form of woodturning on a lathe where the initial workpiece is composed of multiple parts glued together.
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Seine
The Seine is a river in northern France.
Sharpening
Sharpening is the process of creating or refining the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting.
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Sharpening jig
A sharpening jig is often used when sharpening woodworking tools.
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Sharpening stone
Sharpening stones, or whetstones, are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools such as knives through grinding and honing.
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Sloyd
Sloyd (Swedish), also known as educational sloyd, is a system of handicraft-based education started by Uno Cygnaeus in Finland in 1865. Woodworking and sloyd are crafts.
Softwood
Scots pine, a typical and well-known softwood Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers.
Spear
A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
Speed square
A Swanson Speed Square. A speed square, also called a rafter square, rafter angle square, and triangle square, is a multi-purpose triangular carpenters' tool used for marking out.
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Spring and Autumn period
The Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history lasted approximately from 770 to 481 BCE which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period.
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Square (tool)
A square is a tool used for marking and referencing a 90° angle, though mitre squares are used for 45° angles.
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Stave church
A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.
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Stone tool
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.
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Studio furniture
Studio furniture is an American sub-field of studio craft centered on one-of-a-kind or limited production furniture objects designed and built by craftspeople.
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Table (furniture)
A table is an item of furniture with a raised flat top and is supported most commonly by 1 to 4 legs (although some can have more).
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Table saw
A table saw (also known as a sawbench or bench saw in England) is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (directly, by belt, by cable, or by gears).
Tack cloth
Tack cloth (tack rag; tac cloth) is a specialized type of wiping cloth that is treated with a tacky material.
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Tage Frid
Tage Frid (30 May 1915 – 4 May 2004) was a Danish-born woodworker, educator and author who influenced the development of the studio furniture movement in the United States.
Tamarix
The genus Tamarix (tamarisk, salt cedar, taray) is composed of about 50–60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa.
Tape measure
A tape measure or measuring tape is a flexible ruler used to measure length or distance.
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Taunton Press
Taunton Press is a publisher of periodicals, books, and websites for the hobbyist and building trades based in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Teak
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae.
Thickness planer
A thickness planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a thicknesser or in North America as a planer) is a woodworking machine to trim boards to a consistent thickness throughout their length.
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Thuja
Thuja is a genus of coniferous tree or shrub in the Cupressaceae (cypress family).
Thuja plicata
Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.
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Tilia americana
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.
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Timber framing
Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.
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Tommy Mac (carpenter)
Thomas J. MacDonald (born June 18, 1966), known as Tommy Mac, is an American carpenter and woodworker and former host of the public television series Rough Cut: Woodworking with Tommy Mac.
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Tradition
A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
Triplochiton scleroxylon
Triplochiton scleroxylon is a tree of the genus Triplochiton of the family Malvaceae.
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Trunk (botany)
In botany, the trunk (or bole) is the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, which is an important feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species.
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Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.
Turning
Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool, typically a non-rotary tool bit, describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates.
Varnish
Varnish is a clear transparent hard protective coating or film.
Victorian decorative arts
Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era.
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Vise
A vise or vice (British English) is a mechanical apparatus used to secure an object to allow work to be performed on it.
Vitruvius
Vitruvius (–70 BC – after) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura.
Well
A well is an excavation or structure created in the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water.
Wendy Maruyama
Wendy Maruyama (born 1952) is an American visual artist, furniture maker, and educator from California.
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Wharton Esherick
Wharton Esherick (July 15, 1887 – May 6, 1970) was an American sculptor who worked primarily in wood, especially applying the principles of sculpture to common utilitarian objects.
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Windsor chair
A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to other styles of chairs whose back legs and back uprights are continuous.
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Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
Wood carving
Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
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Wood finishing
Wood finishing refers to the process of refining or protecting a wooden surface, especially in the production of furniture where typically it represents between 5 and 30% of manufacturing costs.
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Wood glue
Wood glue is an adhesive used to tightly bond pieces of wood together.
Wood grain
Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement.
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Wood veneer
In woodworking, veneer refers to thin slices of wood and sometimes bark that typically are glued onto core panels (typically, wood, particle board or medium-density fiberboard) to produce flat panels such as doors, tops and panels for cabinets, parquet floors and parts of furniture.
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Woodturning
Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation.
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Woodworking safety
Lack of thorough training on the specific system of safety and health signs and signals plays the pivotal role in furnishing the accidents in the woodworking sector.
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Woodworking vise
A woodworking vise is a type of vise adapted to the various needs of woodworkers and woodworking.
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Workbench (woodworking)
A workbench is a specialized workbench table used by woodworkers.
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Workpiece
A workpiece is a piece, often made of a single material, that is being processed into another desired shape (such as building blocks).
Yakisugi
Yakisugi (杉) is a traditional, very old Japanese method of wood preservation.
Zafimaniry
The Zafimaniry are a sub-group of the Betsileo ethnic group of Madagascar. They live in the forested mountains of the southern central highlands southeast of Ambositra, between the neighboring Betsileo and Tanala peoples.
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See also
Scoutcraft
- Adolph Peschke
- Announcer's test
- Archery
- Backpacking (hiking)
- Batoning
- Bend (knot)
- Blood circle
- Camping
- Camping and Woodcraft
- Carpentry
- Dutch oven
- First aid
- Flag semaphore
- Fly fishing
- Forestry
- Geocaching
- Herpetology
- High adventure
- Hiking
- Knots
- Leave No Trace
- List of binding knots
- Miniature pioneering
- Morse code
- Orienteering
- Ornithology
- Outdoor cooking
- Pathfinding
- Pioneering (scouting)
- Powder Horn (Boy Scouts of America)
- Rangers Sports Events (Lebanon)
- Reef knot
- Ropework
- Scout staff
- Scoutcraft
- Soil erosion
- Tracking (Scouting)
- Water conservation
- Woodcraft
- Woodworking
References
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