{"id":169,"date":"2009-11-23T12:38:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=169"},"modified":"2009-11-23T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T13:00:29","slug":"beginners-guide-to-buying-and-preparing-timber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2009\/beginners-guide-to-buying-and-preparing-timber\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners Guide to Buying and Preparing Timber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve put this guide together to help beginners, just like I was a couple of years back. It covers the kinds of questions that can be embarrassing to ask as they seem so basic.\u00a0 If you are starting out on some serious wood working, carpentry or joinery, it will help you avoid some of the mistakes I&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of questions covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What timber \/ wood to buy?<\/li>\n<li>What is Redwood?<\/li>\n<li>What is White wood?<\/li>\n<li>What grade of timber to buy?<\/li>\n<li>What do timber grades mean?<\/li>\n<li>What is rough saw, PSE, PAR?<\/li>\n<li>What Timber sizes are available?<\/li>\n<li>What to look for when buying timber?<\/li>\n<li>Where is the best place to buy timber?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you&#8217;ve got your wood you don&#8217;t want to dive straight in and make something. The timber needs preparing and acclimatising properly. This is another area that doesn&#8217;t seem to be covered in an\u00a0easily available format so I&#8217;ve covered the basics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preparing timber for\u00a0final seasoning and acclimatising<\/li>\n<li>Acclimatising timber and How Long for?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final stages gets the timber flat, straight square and true using a bench \/ table saw or band saw and planer &#8211; thicknesser.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cutting and planing timber to final sizes<\/li>\n<li>Cutting and planing warped and distorted timber<\/li>\n<li>Planing twisted, winding, bowed, springing and diamond timber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you find this guide useful &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.idostuff.co.uk\/sections\/DIY\/Timber%20selection%201.html');\" title=\"link to timber buying and preparing guide\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.idostuff.co.uk\/sections\/DIY\/Timber%20selection%201.html\" target=\"_blank\">&lt; Beginners Guide to Buying and Preparing Timber&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please use the\u00a0responses \/ comments\u00a0below to let me know how the guide works for you, suggest additions, corrections or criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve put this guide together to help beginners, just like I was a couple of years back. It covers the kinds of questions that can be embarrassing to ask as they seem so basic.  If you are starting out on some serious wood working, carpentry or joinery, it will help you avoid some of the mistakes I&#8217;ve made.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,15,64,56,53,61,65,54,52,58,60,66,62,57,55,63,59,51],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","tag-advice","tag-beginner","tag-bowed","tag-buying","tag-carpentry","tag-flat","tag-grades","tag-guide","tag-joinery","tag-lumber","tag-planing","tag-redwood","tag-springing","tag-timber","tag-tutorial","tag-twisted","tag-wood","tag-woodwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}