Name Douglas Fir
 Location Western North America
Texture/Grain Coarse/N/A
 Specific Gravity 0.48
 Hardness Soft
 Strength Very Strong
 T/R Stability 7.3/4.5%

 

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or those of you who remember the days when we turned to the back of a book to look up information on a specific topic, here's a good old-fashioned index. Look up the topic (or keyword) that interests you alphabetically, then click on the pages listed under that topic. Note: Pages that have a video associated with them are proceeded by a camera () icon.

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Ebony, Gaboon -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Edge, Cutting -- How Tools Cut Wood

Electrolysis -- Preventing and Removing Rust

Elm, Red -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

End grain

bullet Definition -- Wood Grain
bullet Jointing -- Jointing Know-How

Epithelial cells -- Wood Botany

Estimating wood movement -- Wood Movement

Exposure to wood and dust -- Health Hazards

Extractives -- Physical Properties, Wood Botany

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FAQ -- Video FAQ & Troubleshooting Guide

Feed direction

bullet Jointer -- Jointing Know-How
bullet Planer -- Planing Know-How

Fibers, wood -- Wood Botany, Wood Movement, Wood Strength

Figure (Chart) -- Wood Grain

Figured wood

bullet Examples -- Wood Grain
bullet Planing -- Planing Know-How

Files

Finger Plane -- Making a Finger Plane

Fir, Douglas -- Mechanical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart)

Flat grain -- Wood Grain

Forstner bit, sharpening -- Sharpening Drill Bits

Forum -- Workshop Companion Forum

Free water -- Wood Movement

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Goncolo Alves -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Gouge

Grain

bullet Closed -- Wood Botany
bullet Direction -- Wood Strength
bullet Interlocked -- Physical Properties
bullet Irregular -- Physical Properties
bullet Open -- Wood Botany
bullet Pattern -- Physical Properties
bullet Slope -- Jointing Know-How, Planing Know-How
bullet Straight -- Physical Properties
bullet Texture -- Physical Properties, Wood Botany
bullet Wavy -- Physical Properties
bullet Wood -- Physical Properties, Wood Grain

Green wood -- Wood Movement

Grind

Growth ring -- Wood Grain

Guide

Gum, Red -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Gymnosperms -- Wood Botany

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Hand Plane
bullet How to use -- Using a Hand Plane

Hand saw

Hardness -- Mechanical Properties, Wood Strength

Hardwoods -- Wood Botany

Health hazards form woods -- Health Hazards

Heart side -- Planing Know-How

Heartwood -- Wood Grain

Hemlock -- Mechanical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Softwoods (chart)

Hickory -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Holly -- Mechanical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart), Physical Properties of North American Hardwoods (chart)

Hollow grind -- Sharpening Know-How

Hone -- Sharpening Know-How

Humidity, relative -- Wood Movement

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 "Abundant to all the needs of man, how poor the world would be without wood."
Eric Sloane in Reverence for Wood

 

E F G H Index for the Workshop Companion,
essential information about wood, woodwork, and woodworking.
By Nick Engler.

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