Timber

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Axe soft

Enables Axe: Timber provides a necessary starting point for this page.

Bark Fiber hard

Enables Bark Fiber: Timber provides a necessary starting point for first trials.

Bark hard

Enables Bark: Timber provides a necessary starting point for first trials.

Birch Bark hard

Enables Birch Bark: Timber provides a necessary starting point for first trials.

Hardwood hard

Enables Hardwood: Timber provides a necessary starting point for first trials.

Loom soft

Enables Loom: Timber provides a necessary starting point for this page.

Saw soft

Enables Saw: Timber provides a necessary starting point for this page.

Softwood hard

Enables Softwood: Timber provides a necessary starting point for first trials.

Timber seasoning material_source

Seasoning starts with timber selected for grain, size, and defects.

Woodworking material_source

Woodworking depends on selected, sound, workable wood.

Schematic diagram of Timber, highlighting trees, cutting edge, material and major working relationships.

Field briefing

Timber is not generic wood. It is selected tree material whose grain, defects, moisture, and dimensions determine whether woodworking parts hold shape.

What you are trying to make

Create a stock of wood that can be matched to jobs: straight pieces for handles and rails, curved pieces for rims or braces, and disposable pieces for fuel or trials.

Minimum viable version

A basic version identifies sound branches or split billets, removes obvious rot and knots from stressed areas, and keeps pieces off wet ground until use.

Better versions

Better versions sort by species, grain, moisture, and intended load; mark source locations; and reserve the best pieces for wheels, frames, bearings, and tools.

Prerequisite tree

Cutting edges for trimming and conversion.
Counting and writing for stock records.
Timber seasoning for dimensional stability.

Materials and sourcing

Source from woodland, hedgerows, driftwood, managed coppice, old structures, and trade. Recognition means checking straightness, tight growth, cracks, worm damage, rot, twist, knots, and whether the grain runs through the part.

Acquisition is labor, rights, and transport. Large pieces may need a team, rollers, sledges, carts, or trade agreements. Preparation includes debarking where useful, splitting along grain, rough trimming, and storing under cover with airflow. Substitutes include bone, horn, stone, fired clay, or metal for small parts, but timber remains the easiest structural material in many early settings. In Arthurian Britain-like geography, woodland access is plausible but politically and locally variable.

Tools and workshop requirements

Useful tools include wedges, axes, knives, saws where available, cords, levers, storage racks, labels, and a shaded dry place.

Hazards and controls

Felling, splitting, and moving timber can crush, cut, and trap people. Work clear of the fall path, keep bystanders away, brace rolling stock, and treat split pieces under tension carefully.

Procedure

Choose wood by job and grain direction.
Reject rot, cracks through joints, and knots at stress points.
Split or rough-cut oversized blanks.
Mark source and intended use.
Store off the ground with air around the piece.
Test a sample before committing rare stock.

Verification and quality control

Check that a blank is sound, reasonably straight, and free of defects at the stressed section. Bend, tap, shave, and compare test pieces. A poor test part should fail before the production part is trusted.

Sources and provenance

Generated expansion for ANA-37. No source pack was used; specific historical and technical claims need human source review.