Observation

Few candidates were able to:

                        -           list four steps involved in planning a rough piece of timber to width and
thickness;
-           make a pictorial sketch of dead knot;
-           sketch butt hinge and round head wire nail.

                        However, most of them failed to:

• list four steps involved in planning a rough piece of timber to width and thickness.
• make a pictorial sketch of bowing.

The expected response to question 7 is as given below:

            (a)        Any four steps involved in planning a rough piece of timber to width and
thickness:

• select the face side;
• plane the face side;
• test for flatness;
• put the first side mark;
• select the f ace edge;
• plane the face edge;
• test for squareness with the face edge;
• put face edge mark;
• mark for thickness;
• plane to thickness;
• test for squareness and flatness.

 (b)       Pictorial sketch of each of the following timber defects