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Everything about Hewing
Method for converting a log into lumber
In woodworking, hewing is the process of converting a log from its rounded natural form into lumber (timber) with more or less flat surfaces using primarily an axe. It is an ancient method, and before the advent of sawmills, it was a standard way of squaring up wooden beams for timber framing. Today it is still used occasionally for that purpose by anyone who has logs, needs beams, and cannot or would prefer not to pay for finished lumber. Thus, homesteaders on frugal budgets, for example, may hew their own lumber rather than buy it. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: HewingA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Time & tideThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Thinking Clearly About Schizotypy: Hewing to the Schizophrenia Liability Core, Considering Interesting Tangents, and Avoiding Conceptual QuicksandCited 89 times
- Go sideways: BroadaxeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Log houseA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb present participle and gerund of hew
Noun The act of one who hews or chops.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Thinking Clearly About Schizotypy: Hewing to the Schizophrenia Liability Core, Considering Interesting Tangents, and Avoiding Conceptual Quicksand
A study on the reasonable width of narrow coal pillars in the section of hard primary roof hewing along the air excavation roadway
Effect of a new treatment protocol called Functional Chewing Training on chewing function in children with cerebral palsy: a double‐blind randomised controlled trial
Racialized Space and the Culture of Segregation: "Hewing a Stone of Hope from a Mountain of Despair"
Hewing the Ancient Elm: Anger, Arboricide, and Medieval Kingship
Time demands of traditional hand-hewing techniques for sustainable repair of wooden heritage structures: A comparative study
"Killing, Hewing, Stabbing, Dagger-drawing, Fighting, Butchery": Skin Penetration in Renaissance Tragedy and Its Bearing on Dramatic Theory
Evolution of the account of Duke Godfrey’s deed of hewing the enemy through the middle with a single blow during the siege of Antioch by the First Crusade. A source study
📚 Books worth reading
Time & tideShirley McKay · 2011
Queen and CountryShirley McKay · 2015
Friend and FoeShirley McKay · 2013- 📕Josey, Westpac '72Joseph Hewes (Ship) · 1973
- 📕Evreii din RomaniaIleana Buculei · 2013
- 📕Philadelphia, 1st January, 1791Hewes & Anthony. · 1791
- 📕Heere beginneth a mery iest of Dank Hew munk of Leicestre, and how he was foure times slain and once hanged · 1560
- 📕Boys who sew · 2004
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