Corian & Wood
Corian & Wood
Corian & Wood
WOOD
NATURAL Composite
WOOD wood
NATURAL WOOD
WHERE DO WE GENERALLY FIND WOOD ?
FUEL FLOORING
fuel furniture
Grains Knots
CLASSIFICATION OF NATURAL WOOD
NATURAL
WOOD
HARD SOFT
WOOD WOOD
HARD WOOD
•Hardwood is wood from dicot
angios perm trees
•The term may also be used for the
trees from which the wood is
derived;
HARD WOOD
Characteristics
•Hardwoods have a more complex
structure than softwoods
•Dark in colour
•Expensive
•Slower growth rate
•Higher density
•Heavy in weight
•More fire resistant than soft wood
•Strong in compression and
tension
HARD WOOD
Examples - Oak
•Light in colour
•Heavy
•Ring porous
•Open grain
•Hard to work with.
•When treated it looks classy and
elegant
HARD WOOD
EXAMPLES - OAK
PRODUCT
S
HARD WOOD
Examples - Maple
•Maple is so hard and resistant to
shocks that it is often used for
bowling alley floors.
•Its diffuse evenly sized pores
give the wood a fine texture and
even grain.
•Maple that has a curly grain is
often used for violin backs.
•Burls, leaf figure, and birds-eye
figures found in maple are used
extensively for veneers.
HARD WOOD
EXAMPLES - MAPLE PRODUCTS
HARD WOOD
Examples - Mahogany
• An easy to work wood
•reddish brown in colour
•Expensive
•Strong
• poorly defined annual rings
•may display stripe, ribbon,
broken stripe, rope, ripple, mottle,
fiddle back or blister figures
•excellent carving wood and
finishes well
HARD WOOD
EXAMPLES - MAHOGANY
PRODUCTS
HARD WOOD
Examples - Cherry
• hard
•Strong
•Light to red-brown wood
•Resists warping and checking
•Easy to carve and polish
HARD WOOD
EXAMPLES – CHERRY PRODUCTS
HARD WOOD
Examples – Rubber wood
• light colour
•Medium density
•Usually from the tree of rubber
plantation
•Advertised as eco-friendly wood
oBecause It is not grown
specially for timber but instead
have timber as by product
HARD WOOD
EXAMPLES – RUBBER WOOD PRODUCTS
SOFT WOOD
•Softwood is wood from gymnosperm
trees such as conifers
•Softwood is the source of about 80%
of the world's production of timber
•Softwoods are not necessarily softer
than hardwoods
•The woods of long leaf pine, fir, and
yew are much harder in the
mechanical sense than
several hardwoods
SOFT WOOD
Characteristics
•Cheap comparative to hard wood
•Faster rate of growth
•Lower density
•Softer than hardwood
•Light in colour
•Light in weight
•Poor fire resistant
•Strength in tension but week in
sheer
SOFT WOOD
Examples - Ash
•Hardwoods havea more complex
structure than soft woods
•Dark in colour
•Expensive
•Slower growth rate
•Higher density
•Heavy in weight
•More fire resistant than soft wood
•Strong in compression and
tension
SOFT WOOD
EXAMPLES – ASH WOOD PRODUCTS
SOFT WOOD
Examples - Pine
• soft
•White or pale yellow in colour
•Light weight
•Straight grains
•Lack figures
•Resists shrinking and swelling
•knotty
SOFT WOOD
EXAMPLES – PINE WOOD PRODUCTS
SOFT WOOD
Examples -Cedar
• Knotty soft wood
•Red brown colour with light
steaks
•Aromatic and moth repellant
•Popular wood for lining drawers,
chests and boxes
• Brittle wood
SOFT WOOD
EXAMPLES – CEDAR WOOD
PRODUCTS
SOFT WOOD
Examples –Red wood
•The best quality redwood comes
from the heartwood which is
resistant to deterioration due to
sunlight, moisture and insects
•Redwood burls have a "cluster of
eyes" figure.
•They are rare and valuable.
SOFT WOOD
EXAMPLES – REDWOOD
PRODUCTS
NATURAL WOOD
SEASONING
•Reduces moisture content of wood
•There are two main reasons :
i. Woodworking: when wood is used as a construction material,
whether as a structural support in a building or in wood
working objects, it will absorb or desorb moisture until it is in
equilibrium with its surroundings. Equilibration (usually drying)
causes unequal shrinkage in the wood, and can cause damage to
the wood if equilibration occurs too rapidly. The equilibration must
be controlled to prevent damage to the wood.
ii. Wood burning: when wood is burned, it is usually best to dry it first.
COMPOSITE WOOD
Composite wood is a general term for built up bonded
products, consisting either wholly of natural wood or of wood
in combination with metals, plastics, etc.
I. Plywood
V. Fiber Boards
It is called a batten-board when the strips of wood are not more than
7.5cm wide, a block-board when the size is not more than 2.5cm
and a lamin-board when each strip of wood has a thickness not
more than 7mm.
It is used for doors and partitions due to its low weight, better
stability, good acoustic and heat insulation properties.
SANDWICH
BOARDS
A sandwich board is a general term for built up boards having a core of
light material, faced on both sides with a relatively thin layer of
material having high strength properties.
These are manufactured for the use as panels, insulating and cover
material in buildings and for components of cabinets, cupboards.
PVC FOAM BOARD