making and working with PLYWOOD

What type of wood comes from the tree shown?

• Plywood
• Hardwood
• MDF
• Softwood

What is this material?

• Blockboard

• Plywood

• M.D.F.

Manufactured boards are made by cutting up solid timber wood and sticking it back together again in different ways. Which board is made by sticking together very thin layers of hardwood?

• MDF
• plywood
• chipboard
• hardboard

Which method of plywood bending takes the most time?

• steam bending

• lamination bending

A veneer is ...

• a thin layer of chipboard
• a thin layer of material, usually wood or plastic
• a thick layer of wood that is glued on
• a thick layer of plastic added to wood

Laminating is the process of ..

• gluing chips together
• gluing layers of material together
• gluing layers of wood together
• gluing fibres together

Plywood has layers, called plies or a single ply, that are layered ...

• In perpendicular directions

• In the same direction

• In varying directions

What was the first step before trying to bend any wood.

• Check your former

• Check your wood is straight to start with

• Soak your wood

• Prepare your steam box

Which method of bentwood furniture manufacture is more efficient with materials.

• Steam method

• Layer / Lamination method

Why do you need to clamp the work-piece so carefully and well when bending?

• The forces in the wood want it to stay its original shape

• It will not be the right shape if you do not

• It will break otherwise