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Seasoning of Wood
A live tree contains a great amount of water in the walls and cell cavities of the fibers of the wood. When the log is cut into lumber and exposed to
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The American Woods Project
Introduction
Welcome to The American Woods Project
American Woods by Shelly E. Schoonover was published in 1951 (1st Edition) by Watling & Co. Santa M
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Glossary of Woodworking Joints
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Welcome to our Glossary of Woodworking Joints. Feel free to edit and add terminology to this research page. Please follow the general gui
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Pignut Hickory
The Tree
Pignut Hickory is a tree 50 to 100 feet tall, frequently gnarled, with a divided short trunk of 15 to 30 inches in diameter. The branches p
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Chisel | Tool | Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/technology/chisel Accessed 23 July 2020.
Chisel, cutting tool with a sharpened e
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456 | 14. Juglans Cinerea Linnaeus Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume I plate 14 Reference: Plate_14.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1873 × 2711 Pixels) - Scaled (33%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_14.jpg. Accessed 27 Oct. 2019. |
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441 | 144. Taxus Brevifolia Nuttal Reference: The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/common.html. Accessed 30 Aug. 2019. |
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432 | 145. Torreya Californica Torrey Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume VI plate 145 Reference: Plate_145.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1862 × 2680 Pixels) - Scaled (34%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_145.jpg. Accessed 25 Aug. 2019. |
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386 | 168. Juniperus Occidentialis, Hook. Plate No. 168 Juniperus Occidentialis cross section plate. Reference: An Index to “The American Woods” by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/toc.html. Accessed 17 Feb. 2019. |
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264 | 1922 Detroit Store Smykowski Bros. Grocery, 1922, located 31st and Herbert Street, Detroit. This is a reduced-resolution photo scanned from original. On the left is Leo Smykowski in the center is Stefan Smykowski, the person on the right is unknown. The Smykowskis, Polish immigrants, ran three stores in Detroit, the last one closed in the early 1970s. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1922_Detroit_store.jpg Attribution: Billwhittaker at en.wikipedia [Public domain, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)] |
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546 | 19th Century Knowledge Woodworking Adze And Axe 19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe Reference: "File:19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 26 Jan 2014, 23:25 UTC. 25 Jan 2020, 05:06 . Attribution: Chas. A. Strelinger & Company [Public domain] |
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548 | 19th Century Screwdriver The screwdriver, which began to appear regularly on the woodworker's bench after 1800, did not share the long evolution and tradition of other Anglo-American tool designs. The screwdriver in its early versions frequently had a scalloped blade for no other purpose than decoration. (Smithsonian photo 49794.) Reference: The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woodworking Tools, 1600–1900, by Peter C. Welsh. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27238/27238-h/27238-h.htm. Accessed 6 Feb. 2020. |
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427 | 242. Juniperus Pachyphloea Torr. Plate No. 242 Juniperus Pachyphloea (Torrey) cross section plate. Reference: An Index to “The American Woods” by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/toc.html. Accessed 17 Feb. 2019. |
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495 | 267. Hicoria Pecan (Britt.) Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume XI plate 267 Reference: The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/common.html. Accessed 28 Nov. 2019. |
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543 | 268. Myrica Cerifera L Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume XI plate 268 Reference: Plate_268.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1852 × 2711 Pixels) - Scaled (33%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_268.jpg. Accessed 18 Jan. 2020. |
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