Woodenware Products, Wooden Kitchen Wares

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The wooden wares in kitchen and house furnishings, in addition to furniture, are:

1. Utensils for preparing and containing food; Rolling pins; Bread, meat, and cake boards; Chopping bowls; Spoons, forks; Salad sets; Nut bowls; Potato mashers; Butter paddles and molds; Buckets; Handles of various utensils.

2. Laundry and cleaning implements: Ironing boards; Wringers; Washboards; Clothes-pins; Pails; Tubs; Clothes horses; Curtain stretchers; Backs of brushes; Handles of brooms and brushes; Cases of carpet-sweepers.

• Character of Wood,
• Wood Shrinkage.

Lumber Used in Kitchen Utensils

As mentioned above, each species of lumber is particularly adapted to some certain purpose: some kinds for cabinet work and fininshing; others for use in foundation work. In the Housefurnishings Department, however, durability and serviceability, rather than appearance, are considered. In the following sections the woods commonly used are described.

• Ash Wood,
• Basswood,
• Beech Wood,
• Birch,
• Cottonwood,
• Cypress,
• Hickory,
• Maple Wood,
• Oak Wood,
• Pine Wood,
• Poplar Wood,
• Spruce Wood.

Woodworking

The lumber and wood-working industries are among the largest in the country. Thousands of workers are employed in the various stages of cutting the trees in the forests, transporting the logs to the saw mills, sawing them into boards, planing the rough boards, and making the finished articles.

Much of the material for woodenware goes to the factory in log form without passing through the saw mill.

• Wood Turning Techniques & Lathes,
• Types of Wood Joints in Carpentry,
• Gluing Wood,
• Types of Wood Finishes,
• How to Care for Wood Products.