A Woodworking machine is a machine

Machine

A machine manages power to accomplish a task, examples include, a mechanical system, a computing system, an electronic system, and a molecular machine. In common usage, the meaning is that of a device having parts that perform or assist in performing any type of work...

 that is intended to process wood

Wood

Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...

. These machines are usually powered by electric motor

Electric motor

An electric motor converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.Most electric motors operate through the interaction of magnetic fields and current-carrying conductors to generate force...

s and are used extensively in woodworking

Woodworking

Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood.-History:Along with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood...

. Sometimes grinding machines (for grinding woodworking tools) are also considered a part of woodworking machinery.

Artisanal and hobby machines

These machines are used both in small-scale commercial production of timber products and by hobbyists. Most of these machines may be used on solid timber and on composite products. Machines can be divided into the bigger stationary machines where the machine remains stationary while the material is moved over the machine, and hand-held power tool

Power tool

A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labour used with hand tools. The most common types of power tools use electric motors. Internal combustion engines and compressed air are also commonly used...

s, where the tool is moved over the material.

Hand-held power tools

• Biscuit joiner
  Biscuit joiner
  A biscuit joiner or sometimes plate joiner is a woodworking tool used to join two pieces of wood together. A biscuit joiner uses a small tungsten carbide tipped, circular saw blade to cut a crescent shaped hole in the opposite edges of two pieces of wood or wood composite panels...
  
  
• Domino jointer
  Domino jointer
  The Domino is a loose mortise and tenon joining tool manufactured by the German company Festool.-History and description:This tool, first on sale in 2006, cuts mortises in the manner of a biscuit joiner. Each plunge creates a mortise that is sized to accept a Domino loose tenon, creating joints in...
  
  
• Chain saw
• Hand-held circular saw
  Circular saw
  The circular saw is a machine using a toothed metal cutting disc or blade. The term is also loosely used for the blade itself. The blade is a tool for cutting wood or other materials and may be hand-held or table-mounted. It can also be used to make narrow slots...
  
  
• Electric drill
  Drill
  A drill or drill motor is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for drilling holes in various materials or fastening various materials together with the use of fasteners. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of...
  
  
• Jig saw
• Miter saw
  Miter saw
  A miter saw is a saw used to make accurate crosscuts and miters in a workpiece.-Manual miter saw:The basic miter saw is the manual miter saw. It is a saw suspended on rollers in a metal guide that works with a miter box that allows making accurate crosscuts and miter cuts...
  
  
• Nail gun
  Nail gun
  A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a type of tool used to drive nails into wood or some other kind of material. It is usually driven by electromagnetism, compressed air , highly flammable gases such as butane or propane, or, for powder-actuated tools, a small explosive charge...
  
  
• Hand-held electric plane
  Plane (tool)
  A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood. When powered by electricity, the tool may be called a planer. Planes are used to flatten, reduce the thickness of, and impart a smooth surface to a rough piece of lumber or timber. Planing is used to produce horizontal, vertical, or inclined flat surfaces on...
  
  
• Reciprocating saw
  Reciprocating saw
  A reciprocating saw is a type of saw in which the cutting action is achieved through a push and pull reciprocating motion of the blade.The term reciprocating saw is commonly assigned to a type of saw used in construction and demolition work...
  
  
• Rotary tool
  Rotary tool
  A rotary tool is a hand held power tool with a variety of rotating accessory bits and attachments that can be used for cutting, carving, sanding, polishing and many other applications....
  
  
• Router
  Wood router
  A router is a tool used to rout out an area in the face of a relatively hard workpiece, typically of wood or plastic. The main application of routers is in woodworking, especially cabinetry....
  
  
• Hand-held sander
  Sander
  A sander is a power tool used to smooth wood and automotive or wood finishes by abrasion with sandpaper. Sanders have a means to attach the sandpaper and a mechanism to move it rapidly contained within a housing with means to hand-hold it or fix it to a workbench. Woodworking sanders are usually...
  
  s, including belt sander, orbital sander, random orbit sander

Stationary machines

• Bandsaw
• Combination machine
  Combination machine
  A combination machine is a woodworking machine that combines the functions of two or more separate machines into a single unit. For example, a combination machine might consist of a tablesaw with a side mounted jointer...
  
  
• Double side planer
• Drill press
• Drum sander
• Bench grinder
  Bench grinder
  A bench grinder is a type of benchtop grinding machine used to drive abrasive wheels. A pedestal grinder is a larger version of a bench grinder that is mounted on a pedestal, which is bolted to the floor...
  
  
• Jointer
  Jointer
  A jointer is a woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length....
  
  
• Wood lathe
  Lathe
  A lathe is a machine tool which rotates the workpiece on its axis to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation.Lathes are used in woodturning,...
  
  
• Mortiser
  Mortiser
  A mortiser or morticer is a specialized woodworking machine used to cut square or rectangular holes in a piece of lumber, such as a mortise in a mortise and tenon joint.-Square chisel mortiser:...
  
  
• Panel saw
  Panel saw
  A panel saw is any type of sawing machine that cuts sheets into sized parts. Panel saws are used by cabinet shops to easily cut plywood and melamine sheets into cabinet components. They are also used by sign shops to cut sheets of aluminum, plastic and wood for their sign blanks. Panel saws...
  
  
• Pin router
• Radial arm saw
  Radial arm saw
  A radial arm saw is a cutting machine consisting of a circular saw mounted on a sliding horizontal arm. Invented by Raymond De Walt in 1922, the radial arm saw was the primary tool used for cutting long pieces of stock to length until the introduction of the miter saw in the 1970s.In addition to...
  
  
• Scroll saw
  Scroll saw
  A scroll saw is a small electric or pedal-operated saw that is useful for cutting intricate curves in cases where a jigsaw or coping saw is not appropriate. It is capable of creating curves with edges...
  
  
• Spindle moulder (Wood shaper)
• Stationary sander
  Sander
  A sander is a power tool used to smooth wood and automotive or wood finishes by abrasion with sandpaper. Sanders have a means to attach the sandpaper and a mechanism to move it rapidly contained within a housing with means to hand-hold it or fix it to a workbench. Woodworking sanders are usually...
  
  s, including stroke sanders, oscillating spindle sander, belt sander, disc sander (and combination disc-belt sander).
• Table saw
  Table saw
  A table saw or sawbench is a woodworking tool consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor...
  
  
• Tenoner or tenoning machine
• Thicknesser
  Thicknesser
  A thickness planer is a woodworking machine which is used to create boards that are of an even thickness throughout their length and flat on both surfaces....
  
   or Thickness planer
• Round pole milling machine
• Round pole sanding machine

Panel Line Woodworking machines

These machines are used in large-scale manufacturing

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...

 of cabinets and other wooden or panel products.

Panel dividing equipment

Panel dividing equipment

Panel dividing equipment

Panel dividing equipment is a type of woodworking machine that is intended to divide master panel into sized parts.* Automatic 2-D system...

, classified by number of beam, loading system, saw carriage speed

Double end tenoner

Double end tenoner, classified by conveyor type

• Rolling chain system conveyor speed 40 to 120 m/min
• Sliding chain system conveyor speed 10 to 30 m/min

Panel edge processing equipment

Panel edge processing equipment, classified by conveyor speed

• High speed edgebander conveyor speed >= 100 m/min
• Heavy duty edgebander conveyor speed >= 24 m/min
• Light duty edgebander conveyor speed < 20 m/min (i.e. 8, 12 or 16 m/min)

Panel boring equipment

classified by number of boring heads

• Single line boring machine
• Multi line boring machine

See also

• list of production topics
• Woodworking machinery Encyclopedia
• Woodworking Machinery