DT Y7 finals prep

• Hardwood


  Sourced from deciduous trees
• Deciduous trees


  1. Drop their leaves in the autumn

  2. New leaves grow in spring
• Hardwood


  • Slower growing
  • More expensive
• Hardwood


  • Sought after for its variety of colours and grains
  • Has good aesthetical and physical properties
  • Has a closer grain, making it more dense and hardwearing
• Applications of hardwoods


  • Wide range of applications
• Ash


  Very tough, but also flexible and shock resistant
• Beech


  Tough and very durable with a fine finish
• Oak


  Tough, hard and durable with a variable grain
• Hardwoods come from deciduous trees, which have large flat leaves that fall in the autumn
• Holly is one exception to this rule
• Hardwoods take longer to grow, are not easily sourced and are expensive to buy
• Balsa


  • Soft and easy to form, lightweight, pale in colour, not durable but cheap
• Close-grained


  • Hard, strong and tough, can be challenging to work with and is prone to warping and splitting
• Jelutong


  • Pale, close-grained, with medium toughness, easy to carve
• Mahogany


  • Deep reddish colour that is strong and durable, fairly strong and of medium weight, relatively easy to work with but prone to warping
• Oak


  • Moderate brown colour with unique and attractive grain markings, tough and durable, polishes well
• Balsa is used to make models
• Close-grained wood is used for furniture, toys and tool handles, as well as veneer for worktops
• Jelutong is used for sculpture and pattern making
• Mahogany is used for indoor furniture, panelling and veneers
• Oak is used for high-quality furniture, kitchen units, flooring and for veneers as an expensive material
• the main difference between softwood and hardwood is that softwood comes from evergreen trees, while hardwood comes from deciduous trees.
• hardwood is the wood from deciduous trees
• softwood is the wood from coniferous trees
• Softwood has large pores which are easy to see when the timber is cut across the grain (end grain). Hardwood has small pores which are difficult to see when the timber is cut across the grain (end grain)