A Woodworking machine is a

machine A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromol ...

that is intended to process

wood Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulosic fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin t ...

. These machines are usually powered by

electric motor An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a electromagnetic coil, wire winding to gene ...

s and are used extensively in

woodworking Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning. History Along with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked b ...

. Sometimes grinding machines (used for grinding down to smaller pieces) are also considered a part of woodworking machinery.

Types of woodworking machinery

Artisanal and hobby machines

Woodworking milling machine in school workshop

Woodworking sawmill in a school workshop

These machines are used both in small-scale commercial production of timber products and by hobbyists. Most of these machines may be used on solid timber and on composite products. Machines can be divided into the bigger stationary machines where the machine remains stationary while the material is moved over the machine, and hand-held

power tool A power tool is a tool that is actuator, actuated by an additional engine, power source and mechanism (engineering), mechanism other than the solely manual labour, manual labor used with hand tools. The most common types of power tools use electric ...

s, where the tool is moved over the material.

Hand-held power tools

Biscuit joiner A biscuit joiner or biscuit jointer (or sometimes plate joiner) is a woodworking tool used to Woodworking joints, join two pieces of wood together. A biscuit joiner uses a small Circular saw, circular saw blade to cut a crescent-shaped hole (call ...

* Domino jointer *

Chain saw A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable handheld power saw that cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar. Modern chainsaws are typically gasoline or electric and are used in activities such as tree fell ...

* Hand-held

circular saw A circular saw or a buzz saw, is a power-saw using a toothed or Abrasive saw, abrasive disk (mathematics), disc or blade to cut different materials using a rotary motion spinning around an Arbor (tool), arbor. A hole saw and ring saw also use ...

* Electric

drill A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a drill bit for making holes, or a screwdriver bit for securing fasteners. Historically, they were powered by hand, and later mains power, but cordless b ...

* Jig saw *

Miter saw A miter saw or mitre saw is a saw used to make accurate crosscuts and miters in a workpiece by positioning a mounted blade onto a board. A miter saw in its earliest form was composed of a back saw in a miter box, but in modern implementation ...

* Nail gun * Hand-held electric plane * Reciprocating saw *

Rotary tool A die grinder or rotary tool is a handheld power tool and multitool used for grinding (abrasive cutting), grinding, sanding, honing (metalworking), honing, polishing, or machining material (typically metal, but also plastic or wood). All such t ...

* Router * Hand-held

sander A sander is a power tool used to smooth surfaces by abrasion with sandpaper. Sanders have a means to attach the sandpaper and a mechanism to move it rapidly contained within a housing with means to handhold it or fix it to a workbench. Woodw ...

s, including belt sander, orbital sander, random orbit sander

Stationary machines

* Bandsaw *

Combination machine A combination machine is a woodworking machine that combines the functions of two or more separate machines into a single unit. For example, a combination machine might consist of a tablesaw with a side-mounted jointer. Another common example of ...

* Double side planer * Four sided planer or timber sizer *

Drill press A drill press is a Drill, drilling machine suitable for quick and easy drilling of straight holes, Countersink, countersinking or Counterbore, counterboring that are perpendicular to both directions of a table surface. In comparison, it is more di ...

* Drum sander *

Bench grinder A bench grinder is a benchtop type of grinding machine used to drive abrasive wheels. A pedestal grinder is a similar or larger version of grinder that is mounted on a pedestal, which may be bolted to the floor or may sit on rubber feet. Thes ...

Jointer A jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer, and sometimes also as a buzzer or flat top) is a woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length. ...

Wood lathe A lathe () is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the wor ...

* Mortiser * Panel saw * Pin router or Overhead Router *

Radial arm saw A radial arm saw is a cutting machine consisting of a circular saw mounted on a sliding horizontal arm. Invented by Raymond DeWalt in 1922, the radial arm saw was the primary tool used for cutting long pieces of stock to length until the introdu ...

Scroll saw A scroll saw is a small electric or pedal-operated saw used to cut intricate curves in wood, metal, or other materials. The fineness of its blade allows it to cut more delicately than a jigsaw (power tool), power jigsaw, and more easily than a h ...

* Spindle moulder (Wood shaper) * Stationary

s, including stroke sanders, oscillating spindle sander, belt sander, disc sander (and combination disc-belt sander). *

Table saw A table saw (also known as a sawbench or bench saw in England) is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an mandrel, arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (directly, by belt, by cable, or by gears). The drive ...

* Tenoner or tenoning machine * Thicknesser or Thickness planer * Round pole milling machine * Round pole sanding machine

Panel Line Woodworking machines

These machines are used in large-scale

manufacturing Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer ...

of cabinets and other wooden or panel products.

Panel surface processing

Panel dividing equipment

Panel dividing equipment, classified by number of beam, loading system, saw carriage speed

Double end tenoner

Double end tenoner, classified by conveyor type * Rolling chain system conveyor speed 40 to 120 m/min * Sliding chain system conveyor speed 10 to 30 m/min

Panel edge processing equipment

Panel edge processing equipment, classified by conveyor speed * High speed edgebander conveyor speed >= 100 m/min * Heavy duty edgebander conveyor speed >= 24 m/min * Light duty edgebander conveyor speed < 20 m/min (i.e. 8, 12 or 16 m/min)

Panel boring equipment

classified by number of boring heads * Single line boring machine * Multi line boring machine

Panel automatic packing equipment

References

External links

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