Style Book Revised: January 2014 PW Style Book Revised: Jan 2014 Numbers, Measurements • #400-grit (adj) • 30 years adze (n): a primitive tool for surfacing lumber and Callouts • #400 grit (n) • #0000 steel wool • #1,000 grit stone • 1-pound cut, 2-pound cut etc. aftermarket (n): the market for parts, accessories and repairs • 40-tooth (adj) (for shellac) • thickness x width x length of a product; also, a secondary • On anything dimensional, • $2,800 (not $2800) • 1 horsepower; 1 hp (1-hp market for a product after the use numerals and birds’ feet, router); spell out ‘horsepower’ primary market; an aftermarket • 2" scale even if it’s an approximation on first reference, then can use fence for a table saw, for example • 32" x 48" ‘hp’ abbreviation (this departs from AP style) AIA (abbreviation): American • 4' x 7' 1/4"-20 (machine screw thread; • 4/4 lumber (reads as “four- Institute of Architects • 2x4; 2x4s (Name for quarter lumber”; refers to rough- 1/4" is diameter, 20 is threads per air-conditioner (n); construction-grade lumber, cut lumber measured by quarters inch) air-conditioning (A/C) (n); usually pine, generally used for or an inch; do not set as stacked • 70°F (no space; don’t spell out air-conditioned (adj) wall studs; is not really 2" by 4", fractions) on first ref.) air-dry (v); air-dried (adj): a but an estimate of the size used • mid-1800s • 3D (departure from AP) commonly; do not include inch method of seasoning lumber •30mm, 25 cm marks) which permits the sawn wood, • model 41293 which is usually protected from • 90° (use symbol for degrees, the elements, to dry naturally in both temperatures and angles; • #8 drywall screw A open air do not spell out “degrees;” for • one-by lumber (also two-by, A-A and A-B (adj) (plywood the symbol, Option + Shift + 8) six-by, ten-by, etc.) air nailer (n): a pneumatic tool grades used by American that drives nails; also called a • $6 a board foot; $.09 a • PC 7518 (Porter-Cable is a Plywood Association nailgun board foot (board foot can be tool manufacturer; their tools standards.) abbreviated bf) are often named PC ####) air-powered (adj) about: use when referring to aliphatic resin glue (n): • chapter six (in text) • 75 percent price; do not use ‘around’ technical name for basic yellow • 25cm, 30mm • 9-ply (adj) A/C (abbreviation for air woodworking glue, which • 9dB (decibels; spell out • 45 pounds conditioning) is really a polyvinyl acetate ‘decibels’ on first reference, then • 2-speed, 3-speed, etc. abrasive (n): any of the coated (PVA) glue with an aliphatic can use ‘dB’) resin added to extend open • 4 square feet papers, fabrics or other materials • 9'- or 10'-diameter blade (including pumice, rottenstone time and increase the range of • 12 square inches (write out in • DW 625 (DeWalt is a tool and steel wool) used for temperatures in which it will text, abbreviate 12 sq. ft. when smoothing wood or between- work manufacturer; their tools are appearing in a chart or diagram) often named DW###) coat smoothing of finishes a.k.a. (abbreviation): also • step 3 (as photo label, acetate (n): a clear, plastic- known as • Figure 1-3 (chapter one, third illustration label) illustration) like film used as an overlay or alder: a type of wood • step three (in text) template for drawings • Figure 1B aliphatic resin glue (n) • 24"-tall by 36"-wide (adj.) acetone (n): a solvent used to • Figure 2-14, A&B (one figure, Allen: trademarked (such as clean wood pitch from blades two views) • 46 tpi blade Allen-wrench); replace with and tools • Photo 3-12 (chapter three, • 220v (volts) “hex,” unless the Allen brand is acute-angle (adj) 12th photo) • 4"-wide belt being specifically referred to acknowledgement (n); • 10-gauge cord • 10W (SAE oil weight) allergen (n): something that acknowledgements causes an allergic reaction 2 • PW Style all-steel (adj) Arts & Crafts style bar-type (adj) to or used on the top of a also known as: see ‘a.k.a.’ ash: a type of wood baseboard (n) workbench; a benchtop table saw, for example alternate top bevel (blade) (n): asterisks: to denote exceptions/ baseline (n): a reference see ‘ATB’ further info in cutlists. first-*, point from which one begins Bender, Chuck: Popular Woodworking Magazine’s senior aluminum oxide (n): an second-**, third-†, fourth -‡ measuring; usually in reference editor abrasive agent used as grit for ATB (abbreviation); to drawings abrasive paper (sandpaper) alternate top bevel (blade) (n): base plate (n) bevel (n): instrument consisting of two arms which are adjusted a.m., p.m. use ‘ATB’ second reference basket weave (n); to any angle for drawing angles auger (n): a wood-boring device basket-weave (adj) amp (abbreviation); ampere or for adjusting a surface to be or bit (n): measurement of electronic basswood (n): a close-grained cut to an angle current; usually used in awkward-shaped (adj) wood – heavier than balsa bevel (v): to cut at an inclined reference to power of an – used in carving awl (n): a pointed scribing tool or sloping angle on a workpiece electric motor or circuit; a used to mark layout lines batten (n): a thin, narrow strip that is other than 90°; also, the 15-amp motor circuit breaker, axis (n); axes (pl): the center of wood used to seal, reinforce angle itself for example; use ‘amp’ in all point the length of an object or support a joint references bevel-edge chisel (n): the around which the object turns; Bauhaus (adj): school of type of chisel used for paring ampere: see ‘amp’ a dowel rod has a centered axis, thought in architecture that and light chopping; edges are American Plywood where a turned cabriole leg tries to combine technology, beveled to allow access to inside Association: see ‘APA’ may have two axes in order to craftsmanship and design corners of joints develop a tapered or curved aesthetics; founded in 1923 by American-made (adj) beveled (adj): referring to an surface Walter Gropius angle-adjustment (adj) angled surface beam (n): the handle of a square angled-shoulder (adj) bevel-grind (v) as opposed to the blade, or the aniline dye (n) part of a marking gauge that bevel-ground (adj) annual rings (n): the growth B holds the point beveling (v): to angle a surface rings of a tree backboard (n) bearing-guided (adj) or edge by cutting anti-climb (adj) backlog (n) because: relates to causality bevel-rip (n); bevel ripping (v) antikick (adj) backsaw (n): a hand saw that only: Because all the parts are bf (abbreviation); board foot: antikickback (adj) is stabilized with a rigid spine small, cut them from one board. measurement based on 1" x along the back of the blade Time is not a factor. ‘Since’ 1' x 1' piece of lumber or 144 APA (abbreviation): American would be incorrect here. square inches of lumber before Plywood Association; use ‘APA’ backstop (n) beech: a type of wood surfacing; used for pricing and second reference balsa (n): a light, close-grained purchasing lumber wood used primarily in carving belt-driven (adj) apron (n): the part of a table Biesemeyer fence (n): a brand bench dog (n) which attaches the base to the Baltic birch; Baltic birch name top plywood (n): a high-quality bench grinder (n): motor- bi-level (adj) arbor (n): a motor’s axis or birch plywood made from driven wheels ranging from rotating shaft to which a tool veneer of equal thickness. abrasive to buffing cloth to birch: a type of wood is attached, such as a table saw It has no voids. Widely used perform a variety of sharpening, bird’s-eye maple (n): a highly blade or a router bit for furniture, it’s also known honing, cleaning and polishing figured cut of maple formed as “Finnish birch.” Unlike arbor-hole (adj) of cutting tools and other metal by conical grain formations domestic plywood, such as which produce random circular arbor-support (adj) bench hook (n): a shop-made “apply ply,” which comes in 4' x accessory which is used to hold markings when cut arborvitae (n): landscape 8' sheets, Baltic birch is made in a smaller workpiece stationary BIS (abbreviation): shrubbery 5' x 5' sheets on the principle of friction with British Imperial System; a arc (n) band saw (n): a power saw the workbench measurement system including archetypal (adj) using a continuous-loop blade bench plane (n): a plane with the inch, foot, yard, mile, pint, powered by two or three wheels quart, gallon, etc. architect’s rule (n): usually a a larger footprint and wider three-sided ruler marked with bar clamp (n): a clamping cutter, e.g. smoothing plane, biscuit (n): a small wafer of different measuring scales device with a long bar used to jack plane wood which is inserted and clamp the edges of wood when glued to an edge groove between armchair (n) bench stone (n): another name gluing panels or corners of boxes for a whetstone, which is used to two pieces of wood to be joined arithmetic (adj) during assembly sharpen knives and chisels biscuit joiner (n): a power tool around: do not use when barleycorn (n): an old unit of benchtop (adj): referring to that cuts the hole into which a referring to price; use ‘about’ measure equal to one-third of something which is mounted biscuit (see above) is inserted instead an inch PW Style • 3 bits (n): boring tools of varying arranged so the grain creates units used to measure the cabinetwork (n): the diameters used with an electric mirror images heating requirements and construction of cabinetry drill or a brace bookshelf (n) insulation of homes cabriole leg (n): a type of turned blade-adjustment (adj) bowing (n): a lumber defect bubinga (n): a type of wood or carved leg that has a graceful blade breaker (n) caused