If you are wondering what something stands for in a topic title or post look no further. You now have a place to look up the meaning of the acronyms we use so commonly here we don't even really think about it, like its normal conversation but really, only some "woodies" like us get.
When you make a post, understand that you're trying to communicate with others....Remember that just because you know what it is, doesn't mean other members will. If you feel the need to use acronyms, please use as few acronyms as possible.
This is a list of acronyms in alphabetical order and will be constantly updated.
If you have a contribution please make the post in the topic linked below.
HERE
Thanx to Kevin for letting/making this happen.
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1C = No. 1 Common
2C = No. 2A Common
3AC = No. 2B Common
3BC = No. 3A Common
4/4 = 1" Rough Thickness
5/4 = 1¼" Rough Thickness
6/4 = 1½" Rough Thickness
8/4 = 2" Rough Thickness
12/4 = 3" Thickness
1S & 2S = Ones and Twos (also pronounced "Firsts and Seconds"), A combined grade of the hardwood grades of firsts and seconds
AAW = American Association of Woodturners
ABW = African Black Wood
ABWB = African Black Wood Burl
ACB = American Chittum Burl
AC = Alternating Current
ACQ = Alkaline Copper Quarternary (pressure treatment solution)
AD = Air Dried
AF = Alpine Fir
AFA = American Forestry Association
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
AH = Absolute Humidity
AL = All Lengths
ALS = American Lumber Standard
AMC = Ambient Moisture Content
ATB = Alternating Top Bevel
AVG = Average
AVL = Average Length
AVW = Average Width
BAB= Black Ash Burl
BB = Buckeye Burl
BBS = Bulletin Board System
BEB = Box Elder Burl
BEM = Bird's Eye Maple
BF = Board Feet/Foot
BH = Boxed Heart
BOB = Black Oak Burl
BOHICA = Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BHC = Boxed Heart Center
BM = Blue Mahoe
BLM = Big Leaf Maple
BLO = Boiled Linseed Oil
BDC = Bottom Dead Center
BTD = Bit The Dust
BTDT = Been There Done That
BTW = By The Way
CA = Cyanoacrylate Adhesive (Super Glue) aka.Turner's Friend
CC = Curly Claro
CHC = Curly Horse Chestnut
CK = Curly Koa
CMS = Compound Miter Saw
CNC = Computer Numerical Control
CW = Cheese Wood, aka YCB = Yellow Cedar Burl
DAMHIKT = Don't Ask Me How I Know This
DAS = Dead Ass Slow
DBH = Diameter at Breast Height (tree girth measurement)
DIW = Desert Ironwood
DIWB = Desert Ironwood Burl
EMC = Equilibrium Moisture Content
EWP = Eastern White Pine
F1F = FAS One Face
FAS = Firsts And Seconds
FBE = Flame Box Elder
FBEB = Flame Box Elder Burl
FOHC = Free Of Heart Center
F.O.R.D Wood = Found On Road Dead Wood
FRB = Flat Rate Box
FUBAR = Fouled Up Beyond Any Repair
FWIW = For What It's Worth
GRRRRR = Mike1950's answer for most everything
HF = Hollow Form
HOW = Hands On Workshop
HR = Honduran Rosewood
HRB = Honduran Rosewood Burl
HTH = Hope This/That Helps
HVBW = Highly Valuable Black Walnut
ID = Inside Diameter
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
IRW = Indian Rosewood
ISO = In Search Of
ITT = In This Thread
JOB = Junk Out (the) Box
JSYK = Just So You Know
KISS = Keep It Short & Sweet (keep it stupid simple)
LABTC = Locally Available But Totally Crap
LFRB = Large Flat Rate Box
LO = Live Oak
LOF = Line Of Fire
LOLSHMSFOAIDMT = Laughing Out Loud So Hard My Sombrero Fell Off And I Dropped My Taco
LVL = Laminated Veneer Lumber
MC = Moisture Content
MC = Mud Cured
MDF = Medium Density Fiberboard
MEK = Methyl Ethyl Ketone
MFRB = Medium Flat Rate Box
MT = Morse Taper (e.g. MT1, MT2, MT3)
MWBGA = May We Be Great Again
NIP = Norfolk Island Pine
OD = Outside Diameter
P6 = Piss Poor Planning Produces Pitiful Performance
P7 = Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
PEG = PolyEthylene Glycol
PM = Pepper Mill
PPB = Powder Post Beetle
PPE = Personal Protective Equipment
PT = Pressure Treated
POJ = Piece Of Junk
POS = Piece Of S***
PR = Polyester Resin
PTO = Power Take-Off
QFT = Quoted for Truth
R1E = Straight line Ripped 1 Edge
R2E = Straight line Ripped 2 Edges
RLO = Raw Linseed Oil
ROB = Russian Olive Burl
ROYGBIV = The sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.
RSL = Rough Sawn Lumber
S1S = Surfaced 1 Side
S1E = Surfaced 1 Edge
S2S = Surfaced 2 Sides
S2E = Surfaced 2 Edges
S1S1E = Surfaced 1 Side 1 Edge
S1S2E = Surfaced 1 Side 2 Edges
S2S1E = Surfaced 2 Sides 1 Edge
S4S = Surfaced 4 Sides
SCMS = Sliding Compound Miter Saw
SEL = Select
Sel & Btr = Select & Better
SMHATAOTM= shaking my head at the antics of the moderators....
SNAFU = Situation Normal All Fouled Up
SFRB = Small Flat Rate Box
SRG - Spindle Roughing Gouge
SS = Stainless Steel
SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed
SYP = Southern Yellow Pine
TDC = Top Dead Center
TPI = Teeth Per Inch
UHMWP = Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Plastic (Polyethylene)
VS = Variable Speed
WBOM = Water Based Oil Modified
WO = White Oak
WOP = Wipe On Poly
WTD = Wood Turners Douche
WTF = Wood Turners Favorite or Wood Turners Finish
YCB = Yellow Cedar Burl
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary
When you make a post, understand that you're trying to communicate with others....Remember that just because you know what it is, doesn't mean other members will. If you feel the need to use acronyms, please use as few acronyms as possible.
This is a list of acronyms in alphabetical order and will be constantly updated.
If you have a contribution please make the post in the topic linked below.
HERE
Thanx to Kevin for letting/making this happen.
**********************************************************************************************************************************************
1C = No. 1 Common
2C = No. 2A Common
3AC = No. 2B Common
3BC = No. 3A Common
4/4 = 1" Rough Thickness
5/4 = 1¼" Rough Thickness
6/4 = 1½" Rough Thickness
8/4 = 2" Rough Thickness
12/4 = 3" Thickness
1S & 2S = Ones and Twos (also pronounced "Firsts and Seconds"), A combined grade of the hardwood grades of firsts and seconds
AAW = American Association of Woodturners
ABW = African Black Wood
ABWB = African Black Wood Burl
ACB = American Chittum Burl
AC = Alternating Current
ACQ = Alkaline Copper Quarternary (pressure treatment solution)
AD = Air Dried
AF = Alpine Fir
AFA = American Forestry Association
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
AH = Absolute Humidity
AL = All Lengths
ALS = American Lumber Standard
AMC = Ambient Moisture Content
ATB = Alternating Top Bevel
AVG = Average
AVL = Average Length
AVW = Average Width
BAB= Black Ash Burl
BB = Buckeye Burl
BBS = Bulletin Board System
BEB = Box Elder Burl
BEM = Bird's Eye Maple
BF = Board Feet/Foot
BH = Boxed Heart
BOB = Black Oak Burl
BOHICA = Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BHC = Boxed Heart Center
BM = Blue Mahoe
BLM = Big Leaf Maple
BLO = Boiled Linseed Oil
BDC = Bottom Dead Center
BTD = Bit The Dust
BTDT = Been There Done That
BTW = By The Way
CA = Cyanoacrylate Adhesive (Super Glue) aka.Turner's Friend
CC = Curly Claro
CHC = Curly Horse Chestnut
CK = Curly Koa
CMS = Compound Miter Saw
CNC = Computer Numerical Control
CW = Cheese Wood, aka YCB = Yellow Cedar Burl
DAMHIKT = Don't Ask Me How I Know This
DAS = Dead Ass Slow
DBH = Diameter at Breast Height (tree girth measurement)
DIW = Desert Ironwood
DIWB = Desert Ironwood Burl
EMC = Equilibrium Moisture Content
EWP = Eastern White Pine
F1F = FAS One Face
FAS = Firsts And Seconds
FBE = Flame Box Elder
FBEB = Flame Box Elder Burl
FOHC = Free Of Heart Center
F.O.R.D Wood = Found On Road Dead Wood
FRB = Flat Rate Box
FUBAR = Fouled Up Beyond Any Repair
FWIW = For What It's Worth
GRRRRR = Mike1950's answer for most everything
HF = Hollow Form
HOW = Hands On Workshop
HR = Honduran Rosewood
HRB = Honduran Rosewood Burl
HTH = Hope This/That Helps
HVBW = Highly Valuable Black Walnut
ID = Inside Diameter
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
IRW = Indian Rosewood
ISO = In Search Of
ITT = In This Thread
JOB = Junk Out (the) Box
JSYK = Just So You Know
KISS = Keep It Short & Sweet (keep it stupid simple)
LABTC = Locally Available But Totally Crap
LFRB = Large Flat Rate Box
LO = Live Oak
LOF = Line Of Fire
LOLSHMSFOAIDMT = Laughing Out Loud So Hard My Sombrero Fell Off And I Dropped My Taco
LVL = Laminated Veneer Lumber
MC = Moisture Content
MC = Mud Cured
MDF = Medium Density Fiberboard
MEK = Methyl Ethyl Ketone
MFRB = Medium Flat Rate Box
MT = Morse Taper (e.g. MT1, MT2, MT3)
MWBGA = May We Be Great Again
NIP = Norfolk Island Pine
OD = Outside Diameter
P6 = Piss Poor Planning Produces Pitiful Performance
P7 = Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
PEG = PolyEthylene Glycol
PM = Pepper Mill
PPB = Powder Post Beetle
PPE = Personal Protective Equipment
PT = Pressure Treated
POJ = Piece Of Junk
POS = Piece Of S***
PR = Polyester Resin
PTO = Power Take-Off
QFT = Quoted for Truth
R1E = Straight line Ripped 1 Edge
R2E = Straight line Ripped 2 Edges
RLO = Raw Linseed Oil
ROB = Russian Olive Burl
ROYGBIV = The sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.
RSL = Rough Sawn Lumber
S1S = Surfaced 1 Side
S1E = Surfaced 1 Edge
S2S = Surfaced 2 Sides
S2E = Surfaced 2 Edges
S1S1E = Surfaced 1 Side 1 Edge
S1S2E = Surfaced 1 Side 2 Edges
S2S1E = Surfaced 2 Sides 1 Edge
S4S = Surfaced 4 Sides
SCMS = Sliding Compound Miter Saw
SEL = Select
Sel & Btr = Select & Better
SMHATAOTM= shaking my head at the antics of the moderators....
SNAFU = Situation Normal All Fouled Up
SFRB = Small Flat Rate Box
SRG - Spindle Roughing Gouge
SS = Stainless Steel
SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed
SYP = Southern Yellow Pine
TDC = Top Dead Center
TPI = Teeth Per Inch
UHMWP = Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Plastic (Polyethylene)
VS = Variable Speed
WBOM = Water Based Oil Modified
WO = White Oak
WOP = Wipe On Poly
WTD = Wood Turners Douche
WTF = Wood Turners Favorite or Wood Turners Finish
YCB = Yellow Cedar Burl
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary
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