Glossary C

Cabinetmaker

Treated together with Carpenter, Joiner, Mechanic, Craftsman. Briefly, a Cabinetmaker is a woodworker who makes cabinets and does the finer kind of joiner's work.

Cabinetmakers work in solid wood, typically Hardwood, though Veneers of highly prized wood may be used for decorative purposes. As "finish" carpenters, Carpenters can work at the same level of excellence as cabinetmakers; mostly carpenters engage in the initial stages of construction, activities that lead up to the point where a construction needs finishing touches; for example, finish carpenters takeover where Moldings for ceilings and banisters for stairways are precisely cut and mounted.

Cabriole

Cabinet Scraper

Calipers

Carbide and Carbide-tipped

Carcase

Carcase Saw

Carpenter's Pencil

Cast Iron

Castellated Nut

A nut with a series of notches on one face to allow a Cotter Pin to pass through a hole in a shaft or a bolt. The pin prevents the nut from turning. ( Home Craftsman 4 November-December 1935 p. 94)

Cathedral Grain

Caul

Chamfer

Chamfer plane

Chasing

Ornamenting metal by the use of special tools known as chasing tools. A chasing tool is held against the metal and tapped with a hammer.

Source: Home Craftsman 4 May-June 1935, page 220.

Chest of Drawers

Chip Carving

Chip-Out

See Tear-Out.

Chisel

Chop Saw

Chuck

Circular Saw

Circular Saw Blade: the central component of a circular saw.

Clamps

Cleat

Clinch Nails

Cockbeading

Philip Leon, "Woodworker Meets Wordworker," Popular Woodworking (April 2002), p. ? ["Out of the Woodwork" column.]

Collet : See also Chuck.



On the left is the image of the collet system in my early 1990s Elu router.

(Source: [Anonymous] "Elu Router", Shopnotes 1, no 1 1992, page 10 Image used with permission.)

(The significance of routers in the amateur woodworking movement warrants an extended treatment of the router's development. Click here for an account that traces back to the first decade of the 20th century up to the recent past

Colonial

Combination Square

Combination Woodworking Machines

Compressed-Air System

Constructive Design

See Design

Coped Joints

Corbel

Cordless Tools

Cotter Pin

Countersink

Countersink Bit

Court Cupboard

Cupboard

Cove:

Cross-lap Joint

Curved-Leg Table

also Tripod Table (see article,Woodsmith , 28, no 168 December 2006 pages 22-26, plus other details on subsequent pages.

Cutterhead

Cyma Curve