Department of Forestry Fact Sheet FORFS 02-02 Products Made From Wood Terry Conners, Extension Specialist in Forest Products List created July, 2002 from a number of other lists, with additions. Corrections and Additions will be welcomed! ([email protected]) Solid Wood Products Lumber and plywood to build new homes Drum Sticks Brush handles Doors Tambourines Cable reels Window frames and sills Wood blocks Canes Flooring Speaker cabinets Cedar chests I-joists Amplifier cabinets Cedar closet lining LVL (laminated veneer lumber) Metronomes Activated charcoal Parallel strand lumber Xylophones Church pews and altars Finger-jointed lumber Harmonicas Closet rods Machine stress-rated lumber Stage flooring Barrels Coat racks Sandboxes and Backyard play sets Crutches Furniture Charcoal Desks Dining room tables Tool handles Docks Upholstered furniture frames Toilet plungers Decks Rocking chairs Medicine cabinets Kitchen cabinets End tables Parallel bars Ferryboats Coffee tables Vineyard stakes Gazebos Beds Toys such as wooden blocks Grandfather clocks Bookcases Rulers Stair rails Nightstands Birdhouses Truck and trailer flooring Bureaus Fencing, fence posts and rails Mouldings and baseboards Landscape timbers Firewood Paneling Highway guard rails Fishing boats Picnic tables Snowshoes Ladders Pilings for building construction Toothpicks Hockey sticks Popsicle sticks Match sticks Dog houses Porch swings Chopsticks Pallets Produce crates and boxes Shutters Particleboard Propeller shaft bearings for ships Baseball bats Medium density fiberboard (MDF) (used Rocking horses Canoe paddles and oars in kitchen cabinets and furniture Rowboats Musical instruments: panels, for example) Shingles Guitars Hardboard House siding Pianos Garage doors Putty-type of wood filler Organs and organ pedals Gazebos Tongue depressors Oboes Hot tubs and spas Totem poles Bagpipes Lath Sleds Banjos Trellises Salad bowls and serving ware Clarinets Kitchen utensils Telephone poles Flutes/Fifes Pencils Wheelbarrow handles Mandolins Ping Pong paddles Wood carvings String bass Golf tees Wooden nickels Violins Animal bedding Pegboard Violin bows Railroad ties Ship masts and yardarms Cellos Seesaws Toilet seats Bassoons Model airplanes Piano keys (wooden) Drums Coffins Rolling pins 1 Knife handles Doll houses Rocking horses Childrenís puzzles Test tube racks Fun house barrels Work benches Wine racks Fishing lures Toboggans Handrails Storage battery separators (hard rubber) Bookcases Stake-body truck sides Water tanks Park benches Gerbil chew sticks (balsa wood) Wardrobes/armoires Gun racks and cabinets Yo-yos Model ìTî coil boxes Billboards Dice Automobile chassis Snow fences Silverware chests Ironing boards Trellises Venetian blinds Treenails Parallel bars Billiard cue sticks Post and beam timber framing Log houses Fuel for meat smokers Cabinets for Analytical balances Bowling alley lanes Spices and flavorings Shoe lasts Bowling pins Allspice Radio, television and phonograph/stereo Railroad crossing gates Annatto cabinets Rural bridges Bay leaves Butter churns Tent poles Cinnamon Harpsichords Hurdles Cloves Railroad cars Lobster pots and floats FilÈ (Sassafras leaves, used to Aircraft propellers and airframes Wooden matches thicken gumbos) Minesweeper boats, PT boats Parts of snowboards, skis Juniper berries (gin flavoring) Silos and skateboards Mace Fermentation vats Ventriloquist dummies Nutmeg Cigar boxes Name tags Orange blossoms (flavored Racing shells (one to eight-man rowed Flagpoles (for smaller flags) water) boats) Cribs Chips for smoking meat Wringers for washing machines Police batons Sassafras oil is used as a soap Telephones Planters perfume Wood creosote used to be used as a Dowels Logs provide nutrients for shiitake laxative, a disinfectant and a cough Scaffold planks mushrooms treatment (rarely used nowadays). Concrete forms Cutting boards Woodworking tools Glu-lam beams (used to Model airplanes Planes create long open ìBiscuitsî for wood joining Carpenter levels spaces, as in Carpenter rules churches) Products that Used to be Made Tool chests Excelsior From Wood Gear shift knobs Veneer Butter molds (Some of these may still be made from Bushel baskets Slide rules wood for specialty products.) Pants hangers Phonographs Kitchen counters Water pipes Bicycles Woodcut artwork Bocce balls Travelerís writing desks Merry-go-Round horses Tennis rackets Cigar molds Birdhouses Car dashboards Artistís pallets Snowshoes Golf clubs Washboards Woodworking clamps Conestoga wagons Skis Spinning wheels Clocks and clock gears Water well structures Baskets Waterwheels Water pump enclosures Novelties such as Nutcrack- Printing press type Wheel chairs ers Printing presses Candlesticks Checker sets Deckle boxes (frames used to make paper Warships Jewelry boxes by hand) Wardrobe trunks Foundry patterns Paper presses (to squeeze the water out Maple syrup buckets Crates of handmade paper) Abacus Garage doors Woodworking planes Pulleys Theatre scenery Cigar store Indians Gallows Gunstocks Weaving shuttles and bobbins Milking stools Beehives Wooden shoes Insulator pins Mallets Bows and arrows Plates and bowls Butcher blocks Wooden wheels for automobiles and Artificial limbs Organ pipes wagons Sled runners Crucifixes Pull toys Iceboxes and refrigerators Drafting tables Sextants Gutters Ballot boxes Street paving blocks Spruce gum was used for chewing gum 2 Sassafras tea Oranges Tea tree oil (antibiotic and Canoes Lemons antifungal oil) Automobile tires (used rayon as reinforc- Limes Benzoin gum ing cord) Bananas Gum Arabic Shoe pegs (used to fasten shoe soles to Pears Corks (the primary use for cork: ~17 the leather uppers) Tangerines billion sold each year, compared to Dragonís blood (from fruit of Asian tree) Coconuts 400 million for plastic stoppers was used in the manufacture of Dates (2001 statistics)) varnishes and lacquers Grapefruit Other cork products Dyestuffs (prior to invention of synthetic Olives and olive oil Coasters dyes) Plums Flooring Canada balsam (tree resin) was used to Figs Dartboards make microscope slides Fruit juices Wall and ceiling tiles Quinine came from the bark of the Carob (a cocoa substitute) Sanding blocks Cinchona tree Cider Corkboards Willow bark provided the original source Mistletoe (grows as a symbiant on trees) Expansion joint filler of aspirin-like compounds Eucalyptus leaves (floral component, also Insulation corkboard Cork used to be the gasket material lining used for fragrance) Fishing buoys and floats bottle caps Carnauba wax (from the leaves of the Cork washers Rubber used to be used to waterproof carnauba palm tree grown in Brazil). Hot pads raincoats Used in: Musical instrument parts (e.g., Molded wooden figurines Shoe polish stoppers for organ pipes) Typewriter keys (Celluloid) Lipsticks Laboratory rings for glassware Red elm inner bark used to be steeped in Automotive waxes Bathmats (made of granulated water to obtain a remedy for sore Furniture polish cork) throats Applied to produce to ìPeasî for whistles Hickory was a part of the Wright make it look appealing Cricket balls brothersí airplanes in supermarkets. Corks for pop guns Cylinder phonograph records used to be Products from Wood Sap or Extractives: Foosball (table football) balls made from Carnauba wax because it Citrus cleaners (oils) Hockey balls is so hard Lime scent for aftershave Baseballs Tool handles were made from celluloid as Sandalwood fragrance for soap Facings for some ping pong recently as World War II. and incense paddles Piano keys were once made from celluloid Maple syrup Cork shoe soles as an ivory substitute. Rubber Roofing Rubber products Products that Used to be Things Made from Wood that Golf balls Formerly Were Made from Tires Made From Cork Something Else Marine and underwater (Some of these may still be made as cable insulation Paper (used to be made from cotton and Adhesives specialty products.) linen rags) Combs (hard rubber) Bottle caps gaskets for carbonated Non-Wood/Non-Paper Products Latex gloves and other beverages barrier-type of Life jackets (until 1857 ñ now mostly Shade! medical products polystyrene) Nuts Rubber belts Life preservers (polystyrene now) Cola nuts (Coca-Cola etc.) Rubber hoses Fishing rod handles (now mostly Almonds Gaskets HypalonÆ) Brazil nuts Shoe soles Sheet insulation (e.g., for refrigerators) Cashews Rubber boots Rocket nosecones (a cork-ceramic Hazelnuts Rubber balls composite) Pistachios Turpentine (most of it comes Walnuts from wood pulping Paper and Fluff Products Pecans operations) Computer and copy paper Hickory nuts Book paper Chestnuts Rosin Pine needle extract (an anti- Book marks Pine nuts Envelopes Acorns (decorative uses) inflammatory) Rosewood oil (various medicinal Checkbooks Fruits Bulk mail Apples uses) Taxol (anti-cancer drug) Bills Avocadoes Instruction manuals Frankincense Coffee Packaging cards for blister-packed Peaches Myrrh products 3 Calendars Frozen food boxes Ball point pens Diplomas and Certificates Construction paper Electronics cases (televisions, Report cards Kraft paper (wrapping paper) calculators, computers) Lamp shades Multi-wall sacks for birdseed and pet Loudspeakers Book covers foods Automobile parts (e.g., door panels) Concert posters Price tags Packaging Identification badges Sandpaper Trays Newsletters Seed starter blocks Thermoformed products like gun Recipe cards Loudspeaker cones cases Salt boxes Origami paper Marine/Trailer flooring Sugar and flour bags Tea bags are usually not made from wood Wood-plastic composite lumber: Can labels (except for tomato cans for pulp ñ they