Wood Flashcards
Three types of wood
Softwood
Hardwood
Manufactured wood
Two types of softwood?
Redwood
Parana Pine
Two types of hardwood?
Mahogany
Beech
Two types of manufactured wood?
Plywood
Blockboard
Chipboard
Hardboard
Redwood properties
honey coloured
easy to cut
used for house roots, window frames and skirting boards
Parana Pine properties
pale yellow
good quality
cheap
easy to cut
used for staircases
Hardwood properties
Hard
heavy
come from different parts of the wold
Mahogany properties
reddish brown
hard
strong
used for top quality furniture
Beech properties
pinkish brown
used for mallets, workbenches and kitchen wooden tools
Hardboard properties
made from glueing puped wood
not very strong
Chipboard properties
made from gluing thousands of tiny pieces of wood
used for kitchen cupboards
Plywood properties
made from sticking layers of wood
used for toys and interior doors
very thin + easy to break
Blockboard properties
glueing strips of softwood side by side
used for making modern furniture with decorative veneer on the side
