The rubberwood processing plant was installed with various woodworking equipment that will be used in making furniture, mouldings,
finger-jointed lumber and joinery products.
A common problem with
finger-jointed wooden furniture components is chipping in the finger joints due to fiber deviations around sound knots.
Additionally, the house was built using
finger-jointed 2x4s, or 2x4s created from scrap pieces that are put together to create the size of wood needed.
Q I am laying 15mm-thick real-wood flooring which is
finger-jointed over an existing concrete floor.
The $19-million facility will produce
finger-jointed lumber and flange stock by reprocessing trim ends from other mills.
These items can be supplied from solid wood or laminated from smaller
finger-jointed pieces.
Residential construction contractors also uses structural engineered wood products and
finger-jointed studs that contain adhesives.
The
finger-jointed lumber system utilizes scrap lumber, both dry and green, that is normally discarded and converts it into useful lumber for structural and nonstructural uses.
The engineered-wood boards are made of kiln-dried,
finger-jointed wood blocks harvested from even-aged timber stands to resist distortion.
Present wood recycling and reuse methods have developed over time using specific product needs for existing markets, such as
finger-jointed lumber.
Composite material, in general, is comparable in price to high-grade clear cedar or redwood, but it is much more expensive than, say,
finger-jointed pine.