CARPENTRY/ WOODWORKING
Carpentry - answer-It is the art of cutting, framing, and joining timber or wood. It is
generally known as woodworking
Carpentry (builder) - answer-Is a skilled craftsperson who performs carpentry
Finish Carpenter
Trim Carpenter
Cabinetmaker
Ship's Carpenter
Scenic Carpenter
Framer
Framework Carpenter - answer-Types and Occupation
Finish Carpenter (joiner) - answer-The one who does finish carpentry; that is,
cabinetry, furniture making, fine woodworking, model building, instrument making,
parquetry, joinery, or other carpentry where joints and minimal margins of error are
important.
Trim Carpenter - answer-Specializes in molding and trim, such as door, window
casings, mantels, baseboard, and other types of ornamental work.
Cabinetmaker - answer-Is a carpenter who does fine and detailed work, specializing
in making of cabinets made from wood, wardrobes, dressers, storage chests, and
other furniture designed for storage
Ship's Carpenter - answer-Specialize in shipbuilding, maintenance, and repair and
carpentry specific to nautical needs; usually the term refers to a carpenter who has
a post on a specific ship.
Scenic Carpenter - answer-In film-making, TV, and the theater builds and dismantles
temporary scenery and sets
Framer - answer-Is a carpenter that builds skeletal structure or framework of
buildings
Framework carpenter - answer-Creates the shuttering and false work used in
concrete construction
Cambium layers - answer-It extend concentrically near the bark divide into wood in
inner part and into bark on the outer surface
Early wood - answer-Wood creates a small and thick-wall cells during the fall. It
forms light colored wood.
Late wood - answer-Wood creates a large amount of big and thin-wall cells during
the wet and warm spring-summer season, it forms dark colored wood
,Annual Ring - answer-The combination of early wood and late wood
Sap wood - answer-The part closer to the bark is light-colored and contains live
cells. It also contains starch and many nutritious substances, therefore is
susceptible to the attacks by insects and germs
Heartwood - answer-The part closer to the bark is light-colored and contains live
cells. It consists of the substances that is insusceptible to the attacks by insects and
germs, therefore has high level of durability.
Flat grain - answer-A board cut from a tree trunk by tangential section, with a
section lane running in a direction that touches arcs of annual rings
Edge grain - answer-A board cut by radial section with a section line running in a
direction that crosses vertically the annual rings
Softwood - answer-Is used for the structural materials of architectures; broad leaves
Hardwood - answer-Is used for furniture or interior material; needle-shape leaves
10:5 : 0.5-1 - answer-The ration between tangential:radial:fiber direction
6-12% - answer-Water content in the HARDWOOD for home furniture should be
dried
20% or less than 20% - answer-Water content in the SOFTWOOD for architure
process should be dried
1. Logging
2. Lumbering
3. Sawing - answer-Preparation of Wood
a. Plain or bastard sawing
b. The quarter or rift sawing - answer-Methods and or manner of log sawing
Plain or bastard sawing - answer-Cutting the logs entirely through the diameter with
a parallel cord tangenial to the annual rings
The quarter or rift sawing - answer-Is divided into 4 methods: radial method,
tangenial method, quarter tangenial, and combined radial and tangenial
Natural Air seasoning
Artificial or air seasoning - answer-Seasoning of lumber
Natural or Air seasoning - answer-Is considered as one of the best methods adopted
in seasoning lumber although the period involved is longer than artificial seasoning
method
Artificial Seasoning - answer-Method adopted for quick drying of the wood
, Soft wood
Hard wood - answer-2 types of lumber
Soft wood - answer-Usually used in ordinary woodwork such as pine, lauan, etc.
Hard wood - answer-Usually used in cabinet or furniture making such as narra,
molave, yakal, etc.
Veneer and plywood - answer-Are made of 3, 5, 7 or more veneer slice that are laid
one upon the other with the grain of each at right angle to those of the sheets
above or below it
Soft plywood - answer-Most common for structural use
Hardwood plywood - answer-Used for paneling and finishing where usually only one
face is with hardwood finish
Exterior or marine plywood - answer-Is made for external use
Hardwood/Pressed wood or Fiber Wood - answer-Is made from woodchips which are
exploded into fibers (Defibration) with high pressure steam
Particle Boards - answer-Manufactured drom wood chips, curls, fibers, flakes,
strands, shavings, slivers, etc. which are bound together and pressed into sheets
and other molded shapes
Laminated Wood - answer-Logs are processed by sawmilling and drying, knots and
cracks are removed, and the pieces are connected by finger jointsin the fiber
direction to creat a wide and long material
Knot - answer-A wood defect where a branch or limb of a tree that has been
exposed as the log is cut into lumber
Check - answer-A lumber defect where a lenthwise separation of the wood like a
small crack or split
Split - answer-A lumber defect where it is a lengthwise break or big crack of the
wood surface
Decay - answer-It is the rotting of wood
Stain - answer-Is is a discoloration of the wood surface
Edge (-to-edge) joints - answer-Edges that are joined to produce wide surfaces. It is
used for top tables, chairs, desms, and other furniture needing large surface
Wane - answer-Is a lack of wood on the face of the piece
Lengthening joints - answer-Two pieces joined end to end
