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Bens' Wood Shop Terms
chamfer - to cut a groove or furrow, as in the vertical indentations in some architectural columns; to bevel the edge of a piece of wood
kerf - a slit, perhaps a notch made by a saw or a cutting torch; in woodworking the space made by a blade cutting through a piece of wood.
platen - a flat plate or table-like surface, often made of metal
plywood - an engineered wood product that is used in external and internal construction - from siding to cabinetry. In manufacturing standard plywood, thin sheets or plies of different kinds of wood are trimmed and dried, then stacked one on top of the other at right angles. Then they are glued and hot-pressed together until they bond into a single unit. Often a higher-grade veneer is used on one or both sides of the finished sheet.
router - a motorized tool with a rotating shaft or spindle, tipped with a cutting bit and used for shaping, grooving or making indentations in a wood surface (see chamfer). In woodworking, routers come in 'fixed' and 'plunge' varieties. Fixed versions have a set depth. Plunge styles have a movable table that the bit protrudes through at varying depths.
veneer -a thin sheet of wood that is sliced, or sawed from a log, much as one might peel the skin from an apple. The term applies to any thin sheet of wood, but is often used to describe a finer grade of wood that is applied to the surface of a cheaper wood in order to improve its visual appeal.
winding - material, such as wire, that is coiled around an object. In the case of an electric motor, thin wire is wrapped around a magnetized armature, which spins to provide power for the tool it's housed in.
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