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Warp restraint
In drying timber and other wood products, the application of external loads to a rack, stack or pack of the timber to prevent or reduce warp.
Vertically laminated timber
Vertically laminated timber is designed to resist bending loads applied parallel to the wide face of the laminations. For vertical loads, this means that the wide face runs vertically.
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Across the grain
The direction at right angles to the length of the fibres and other longitudinal elements of the wood.
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Air-dried timber
Timber that is dried by exposure to air in a yard or shed, without artificial heat (also see seasoning).
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Anti-kickback fingers
Anti-kickback fingers are standard safety equipment on most new table saws. The anti-kickback fingers are incorporated into the blade guard and prevent the stock from being thrown at the operator by biting into it when kickback occurs. As long as the stock if fed through the blade in a normal fashion the anti-kickback fingers don't come into play. It is only when the stock binds and kickback occurs that they are important.
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Anti-stain chemical
A chemical that is applied to timber to prevent or retard chemical or fungal stain development.
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Back sawn timber
Timber that is sawn so that the growth rings are inclined at less than 45 degrees to the wide face.
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Botanical name
A botanical name is the formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. The botanical names of Australian and imported species of timber and their relationship to trade names are defined in AS 2543 Nomenclature of Australian Timbers and AS 1148 Nomenclature of Commercial Timbers Imported into Australia.
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Bowstring truss
A truss where the top chord of the truss is curved to an arch shape.
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Butt joint
An end joint formed by abutting the squared ends of two pieces of timber.
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Oregon Maple
Oregon Maple is popular in veneer production for furniture and cabinetry. Its highly figured wood is sought after for musical instruments such as guitar bodies, stringed instruments and piano frames, as well as salad bowls. The Indigenous Lakwungen people of Vancouver Island knew it as the ‘Paddle Tree’ and created paddles and spindle wheels from its wood.
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Parquetry flooring
Flooring made up of small, matching pieces of timber laid on a substrate in a geometric patterns.