Exam 14: Stock Preparation

If possible, you want to joint with the grain to avoid ____.

Once the board is flat, milled to desired thickness, and has a square edge, it is taken to the ____ saw.

Material that is not flat is flattened on the ____.

A test cut would be made on a piece of scrap and then checked with a ____.

The second step in the process of building is to ____.

When ripping to width, the stock should be fully supported by the ____ throughout the cut.

When crosscutting to length, you should go from flattening to cutting to final length one piece at a time.

Hickory is found primarily in ____.

If there is a concave face, material is run with the concave face up.

When ripping to width, set the rip fence to the exact width of your final work piece.

When crosscutting to length, the final cut can be made on the radial arm saw, the table saw, or the miter saw.

____, Carya illinoensis, is a nut-bearing tree of relatively large size.

The maximum width piece that you can flatten is determined by the size of your ____.

It is helpful to do a(n) ____ of the components needed on the stock.

Flattening one face of the stock is an essential step if you are working with ____.

Should you change your mind about a layout, chalk marks are much easier to remove than pencil marks.

You can determine whether or not a piece is flat by placing it on a known flat surface, such as the table saw, and sighting along it.

It is good practice to mill a bit of additional material, which can be used for testing setups in the joinery phase of the project or to replace pieces on which mistakes were made.

The final step in stock preparation is to ____ the workpiece to finished length.

A ____ is a cut made to check the setup of a machine.