Wood Health Hazards
These articles include those which describe potential health hazards associated with working with specific types of wood often used to make turned wood pens. Typically these hazards are limited in nature to potential skin irritation resulting from contact with the dust or shavings, although in some exceptional cases, sensitive persons have had respiratory difficulties when exposed to wood dust from certain species.
But the worst was trying to sand the interior without catching my hands on the spinning natural edge protrusions. I lost count of how many times I lost …
The most common use of highly figured Sycamore is in the making of veneers to be applied to fine furniture or other decorative objects. Some Sycamore may also …
Black Cherry has easily become one of my all-time favorite woods to work with. I have consistently found it be relatively easy to turn and sand, although every …
The majority of T. articulata burl material originates in Morocco where T. articulata remains relatively widely distributed over hundreds of thousands of acres in at least five different areas …
Also, Bamboo is very high in silica, from 0.5% to a whopping 4% is found almost entirely in the outer layer of the stem. Because of this, care …
Unlike in some other timber groups, in this case, which group the wood you are proposing to use can matter. The most commonly important distinction is that White …
Spectraply is made by first peeling Yellow Birch from logs into long sheets as is typical for the production of plywood, the fate of most Yellow Birch timber. …