Name Bolivian Rosewood
Location South America
Texture/Grain Fine/Closed
Specific Gravity 0.80
Hardness Hard
Strength Strong
T/R Stability 6.6/2.6%

 

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Quarter grain -- Wood Grain

Quartersawn -- Wood Grain, Wood Movement

Quilted figure -- Wood Grain

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Radial movment -- Wood Movement

Ray

bullet Cells -- Wood Botany, Wood Grain
bullet Fleck -- Wood Botany

Rays -- Wood Grain

Reaction wood -- Wood Movement

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

Relative wood strengths (chart) -- Wood Strength

Removing rust -- Preventing and Removing Rust

Resin canals -- Wood Botany

Resources

bullet Hardwoods -- Hardwood and Softwood Resources
bullet Jointing -- Jointing and Planing Resources
bullet Planing -- Jointing and Planing Resources
bullet Sharpening -- Sharpening Resources
bullet Softwoods -- Hardwood and Softwood Resources
bullet Wood technology -- The Nature of Wood Resources

Reviews, Tool  -- Introduction to Woodworking Demonstrations

Ribbon figure -- Wood Grain

Ring diffuse -- Wood Grain

Ring porous -- Wood Grain

Roughing cuts, hand plane -- Using a Hand Plane

Rosewood, Bolivian -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Rosewood, Honduran -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Rosewood, Indian -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Roughing gouge -- Sharpening Skews and Gouges

Rough-sawn lumber -- Planing Know-How, Selecting Lumber

Router

bullet Bits, sharpening -- Touching Up High Speed Cutters
bullet Planing jig (Jig) --  Planing Know-How

Rust

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S2S lumber -- Planing Know-How, Selecting Lumber

S4S lumber -- Selecting Lumber

Safety

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

Sapwood -- Wood Grain

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

Saw

Sawdust Sessions  -- Introduction to Woodworking Demonstrations, Sawdust Sessions

bullet Cove cutting -- Cutting Coves on a Table Saw
bullet Finger plane, making -- Making a Finger Plane
bullet Rust, prevention and removal -- Preventing and Removing Rust

Scrapers, sharpening -- Sharpening Scrapers

Sensitizers -- Health Hazards

Shaping gouge -- Sharpening Skews and Gouges

Sharpness -- How Tools Cut Wood

Sharpening -- Sharpening

Shaper cutters, sharpening -- Touching Up High Speed Cutters

Shave hook, sharpening  -- Sharpening Scrapers

Shop Drying -- Selecting Lumber

Silver grain -- Wood Grain

Skew chisel, sharpening -- Sharpening Skews and Gouges

Skew cuts, hand plane -- Using a Hand Plane

Slip

Slope, grain -- Jointing Know-How

Small parts

bullet Jointing -- Jointing Know-How

Smoothing cuts, hand plane -- Using a Hand Plane

Softwoods -- Wood Botany

Spade bit, sharpening -- Sharpening Drill Bits

Specific Gravity -- Mechanical Properties, Wood Strength

Springback -- Jointing Know-How

Springwood -- Wood Grain

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

Squaring stock -- Truing Lumber

Stability -- Mechanical Properties

Stone

Straight grain -- Physical Properties

Strength

bullet Bending -- Mechanical Properties, Wood Strength
bullet Compressive -- Wood Strength
bullet Relative (Chart) -- Wood Strength
bullet Wood -- Mechanical Properties, Wood Strength

Strop -- Sharpening Tools and Materials

Stropping, cutting tools -- Sharpening Know-How

Stiffness -- Mechanical Properties, Wood Strength

Summerwood -- Wood Grain

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

Synthetic stones -- Sharpening Tools and Materials

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Table Saw Techniques

Tangential movement -- Wood Movement

Teak -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Technology, Wood -- The Nature of Wood

Texture, grain -- Physical Properties, Wood Botany

Thicknessing --  Planing Know-How

Thin wood, planing --  Planing Know-How

Three-square file -- Sharpening Tools and Materials

Tips, Workshop -- Introduction to Woodworking Demonstrations

Tool

Touch-up (sharpening) --  Jointing Know-How, Planing Know-How

Toxic woods -- Health Hazards

Tracheids -- Wood Botany

Troubleshooting

bullet Jointing problems -- Truing Lumber
bullet Planing problems -- Truing Lumber
bullet Sharpening -- Touching Up High Speed Cutters
bullet Video -- Video FAQ & Troubleshooting Guide

Truing boards -- Truing Lumber

Tulipwood -- Mechanical Properties of World Woods (chart), Physical Properties of World Woods (chart)

Tuning a hand plane -- Using a Hand Plane

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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

 

Q R S T  Index for the Workshop Companion,
essential information about wood, woodwork, and woodworking.
By Nick Engler.

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