Not familiar with the "Tech Talk" when it comes to tools and manufacturing.  Let Rideout Tool help explain a few of the key terms that we feel may help you understand the industry a little better.

Adhesive
A substance that is capable of bonding material together by surface attachment.

Air Dried
Lumber stacked and stored so that it is dried naturally by the exposure to air.

Back Saw
A handsaw with a rectangular blade with a reinforcing rib along the back for stability, types include razor saws, veneer saws, dovetail saws, and miter box saws.

Band Saw
A saw with a looped blade running around two or three wheels. Used with narrow blades for cutting freehand shapes, and with wider blades and a guide for resawing material.
Calliper
An insturment with two legs, one of them sliding, used to measure the thickness of objects.

Carbide Tipped
Extremely hard steel pieces with sharp cutting edges fastened to cutting tools such as saw blades, and router bits.

Chuck
An attachment to hold work or a tool in a machine, lathe chucks and drill chucks are examples.

Dial Gauge
This measuring instrument has a circular graduated face and a pin which activates a rotating pointer to measure variation in movement in thousands of an inch.

Featherboard
Pieces of wood with fingers used to hold material against a fence and or down against the table on power tools such as a table saw.

Grain
The appearance, size and direction of the alignment of the fibres of the wood.

Hand Plane
A tool to smooth and true wood surfaces, consisting of a blade fastened in frame at an angle with hand grips to slide it along the board.

Knot
The portion of a branch or limb that is embedded in the wood.

Laminate
The product of bonding layers together as in beams or plywood.

Miter Joint
Pieces are cut on an angle to make a joint.

Plumb
A term used to describe something that is perfectly perpendicular to the earth relative to gravity. A plumb bob on the end of a string will give you a line that is plumb or straight up and down.

Seasoning
The time it takes for wood to dry. Wood air-dries and takes one year for every inch of thickness. It refers to a year, a season.

Toggle Clamp
Clamps which can be attached to a base or table to hold work.

Vee Joint
Tongue and groove boards with their top corners beveled so when the two boards come together a V is formed.

X-Acto Knife
This is a razor like blade in a handle, the blades come in various shapes, very handy for fine work.