Woodwork, Wood Flooring, and Wood Paneling

Welcome to Hunter Wood Works.com. We are a website designed and dedicated to bringing you the latest news, info and tips on all thing Wood and Woodworking related. We cover a host of different topics, including news on woodwork, wood flooring, wood fencing, wood paneling, wood suppliers, wood toys, custom woodworks, creative woodworks, Amish woodworks and much more.

Hunter Wood Works.com is a purely informational website and we do not promote, endorse, or support any one particular product, method, or company. Rather we provide you with a comprehensive overview of wood and woodworks. Please make sure to check back with this often as we are continually updating the site bring you the best news possible on the net.

Woodworking is a potentially dangerous hobby. Most hand tools are very sharp, and power tools can cause serious injury, even death, when used improperly. By developing some good habits based on common sense rules, you can work safely in the wood shop.

The first and most important rule of woodworking is to wear appropriate safety equipment. While hearing protection is necessary for some very noisy tools such as routers and surface planers, and latex gloves may be necessary when applying finishes, there is no time in the wood shop that you should be without your safety glasses. Put them on when you enter the shop, and don't take them off until you leave. Your eyesight is too important to take chances.

Woodworking Power Tools are designed so that the direction that the wood moves through the tool (or the direction that the tool moves across the wood) is in the opposite direction of the movement of the cutting head. In other words, a router bit or saw blade should cut against the motion and not with it. The cutter should cut into the stock, not with the stock.

When working on a Table Saw, Miter Saw, etc., never put your hands anywhere near the moving blade, especially when attempting to remove waste or cut-offs. Wait until the blade has stopped moving and then reach for the cut-off.
Better yet, once the saw blade has stopped, use a piece of scrap or a push stick to move the waste away from the blade. Remember that switches can be inadvertently bumped or malfunction, so just because the blade has stopped, don't relax and put your hands too close.

Historically, woodworkers relied upon the woods native to their region, until transportation and trade innovations made more exotic woods available to the craftsman. Woods can be sorted into three basic types: hardwoods typified by tight grain and derived from broadleaf trees, softwoods from coniferous trees, and man-made materials such as plywood and MDF.

There are two basic manufactured types of hardwood. Wood flooring comes unfinished, and once installed is sanded, and then finished on site. More modernly, the product is pre-finished in a factory.

The products that are pre-finished are often a polyurethane finish that has added aluminum oxide; however some companies use titanium dioxide or other oxides instead. These metal oxide finishes are used in various types of floor coverings and increase the wear a hardwood floor can handle.

 

Woodwork | Wood Flooring | Learning Center | Site Map | Contact | Home

Copyright © 2009