Forum sections - suggestion

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:53 pm

Hi,

Thanks for all the suggestions ...
I know the control key but where is the home key
I am with Firefox but on mac

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:56 pm

I just found this ....
If we go completely down the page, there is the word "TOP" in the right corner, so it was already there or someone added it ... it is the first time that I go down completely. Because at the bottom of each page, there is that section where you can post, so we tend not to go all the way down ...
So "TOP" is the keyword of the day for me.

Sorry I first wrote this in the wrong thread ...

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:01 pm

camerio wrote:I just found this ....
If we go completely down the page, there is the word "TOP" in the right corner, so it was already there or someone added it ... it is the first time that I go down completely. Because at the bottom of each page, there is that section where you can post, so we tend not to go all the way down ...
So "TOP" is the keyword of the day for me.

Sorry I first wrote this in the wrong thread ...

Tsk Tsk Tsk!!!

lightnin · Post by **lightnin** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 1:02 am

I have no idea about most species of wood and their proprieties.
I read every thing I find in an attempt to learn about woods and get confused.
I think there are a lot of newbs like me that would love to learn more.
I can't even identify most woods. I plan on doing a lot of woodworking and need to learn much more.
IMHO WOOD would make a great forum category by it's self.
After all... to learn woodworking without learning wood would be like.......

backhertz · Post by **backhertz** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 2:44 am

Wood could probably warrant a forum totally devoted to it... It continues to amaze me. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know... But I will accept anything I can learn & would prefer to go to only one forum myself. I find the topics here to be very broad ranged & interesting.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:41 am

backhertz wrote:Wood could probably warrant a forum totally devoted to it... It continues to amaze me. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know... But I will accept anything I can learn & would prefer to go to only one forum myself. I find the topics here to be very broad ranged & interesting.

Give some consideration to joining the forum here. This is Nick's website and it contains a great section of woods as well as many other topics.

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:26 pm

backhertz wrote:Wood could probably warrant a forum totally devoted to it... It continues to amaze me. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know... But I will accept anything I can learn & would prefer to go to only one forum myself. I find the topics here to be very broad ranged & interesting.

The wood experts in the U.S.A. are the guys at the Forest Products Laboratory,in Madison Wisconsin. Here is their site - Yes it is the Federal Government - http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/several_pubs.php?grouping_id=100&header_id=p

They used to publish an annual book titled "The Wood Handbook" With the coming of the internet - they went electronic. Maybe they still publish a hard copy, I haven't checked. The annual books in the 1960s and 70s were about two inches thick. That's a lot of material!

One of the very best hard cover books I have found that discusses wood growth, characteristics and identification, etc. is "Identifying Wood" by R. Bruce Hoadley. This volume is just as handy as the old wood textbooks we had in Forestry School. I think you can buy one of those books on the internet.

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:37 am

charlese wrote:The wood experts in the U.S.A. are the guys at the Forest Products Laboratory,in Madison Wisconsin. Here is their site - Yes it is the Federal Government - http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/several_pubs.php?grouping_id=100&header_id=p

They used to publish an annual book titled "The Wood Handbook" With the coming of the internet - they went electronic.

The entire handbook is available "free" to you here. We all pay for it.

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/several_pubs.php?grouping_id=100&header_id=p&trending=yes

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:00 am

A hard copy for non members is available from their online store for $60 here: https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/shopping/shopping.aspx?site=fps&prd_key=2ae9f734-a860-49be-b9b9-ad710e13094e
or the pdf version can be downloaded for no charge.

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:14 pm

paulmcohen wrote:The entire handbook is available "free" to you here. We all pay for it. ...

Congratulations. You are one of the few people in this country who are aware what "free" from the government and "free, government funded" actually mean.

"We all pay for it."
(and millions of other things we have absolutely no use for.)