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WOODWORKING PLANS


Along with stone, mud and animal parts, wood was one of the primary materials worked by early humans. Microwear investigation Mousterian stone tools utilized by the Neanderthals demonstrate that many were used to work wood. The introduction of civilization was closely linked with the creation of increasingly greater examples of skill in working these materials.


Woodworking shop in Germany in 1568, the staff member in-front is using a bow saw, the one in the background is planing.
Among early finds of wooden tools will be the worked sticks from Kalambo Falls, Clacton-on-Sea and Lehringen. The spears from Schningen (Germany) provide a few of the first examples of wooden hunting gear. Flint tools were used for carving. Since Neolithic times, carved wooden vessels are known, for example, from the Linear Pottery culture wells at Kckhofen and Eythra.

Types of Bronze Age wood-carving include tree trunks worked into coffins from northern Germany and Denmark and wooden folding-chairs. The website of Fellbach-Schmieden in Germany provides fine examples of wooden animal statues from the Iron Age. Wooden idols in the La T�ne period are known from your sanctuary on the source of the Seine in France. WOODWORKING PROJECTS

The ancient civilization that first used woodworking was the Egyptians. Woodworking is depicted in lots of ancient Egyptian drawings, along with a tremendous amount of ancient Egyptian furniture (for example stools, chairs, tables, beds, chests) has been preserved in tombs. Too, the interior coffins perfectly located at the tombs were also made from wood. The metal employed by the Egyptians for woodworking tools was originally copper and finally, after 2000 BC bronze as ironworking was unknown until much later.[1]

Widely used woodworking tools included axes, adzes, chisels, pull saws, and bow drills. Mortise and tenon joints are attested in the earliest Predynastic period. These joints were strengthened using pegs, dowels and leather or cord lashings. Animal glue came into existence used only in the New Kingdom period.[2] Ancient Egyptians invented the skill of veneering and used varnishes for finishing, although composition of these varnishes is unknown. Although different native acacias were utilized, as was the wood from the local sycamore and tamarisk trees, deforestation in the Nile valley triggered the necessity for the importation of wood, notably cedar, but also Aleppo pine, boxwood and oak, starting from the Second Dynasty.[3]

The progenitors of Chinese woodworking are considered to be Lu Ban (??) and his wife Lady Yun, from the Spring and Autumn Period. Lu Ban is said to have introduced the plane, chalk-line, and other tools to China. His teachings were supposedly left behind in the book Lu Ban Jing (???, "Manuscript of Lu Ban"). Despite this, it is believed that the text was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions for use in building various items such as flower pots, tables, altars, etc., and also contains extensive instructions concerning Feng Shui. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glue-less and nail-less joinery for which Chinese furniture was so famous.


Damascene woodworkers carving wood for hookahs, 19th century.
Materials[edit]
Historically, woodworkers relied upon the woods native to their region, until transportation and trade innovations made more exotic woods available to the craftsman. Woods are typically 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.

Typically furniture such as tables and chairs is made using solid stock, and cabinet/fixture makers employ the use of plywood and other man made panel products.