10a. Wood Caskets

Question 1

What is the definition of casket?

Answer 1

A rigid container which is destined for the encasement of human remains and which is usually constructed of:
- Wood, metal, or like material
- Ornamented
- Lined with fabric

Question 2

What is this:

A case or receptacle for dead human remains which is anthropoidal in shape (widest at the shoulders, narrowest at the feet)

Answer 2

Coffin

Question 3

What’s the big difference between coffins and caskets? (that has nothing to do with shape)

Answer 3

Some caskets are cremated with dead human remains

Question 4

What are the materials used in construction?

Answer 4

Wood
Metal
Fiberglass
Plastic

Question 5

What are the most often used materials?

Answer 5

Wood
Metal

Question 6

_______ is a natural material that provides a beautiful and warm appearance

Answer 6

Wood

Question 7

Prices on caskets depends on what?

Answer 7

• Species of wood
• Amount of worksmanship

Question 8

What is this:

• From deciduous trees
• Close grained resistant wood
• Usually more expensive

Answer 8

Hardwood

Question 9

What are deciduous trees?

Answer 9

Trees that loose their leaves annually

Question 10

What is this:

• From coniferous trees
• Lighter
• More easily cut than hardwood

Answer 10

Softwood

Question 11

What are coniferous trees?

Answer 11

Cone - bearing trees

Question 12

Which type of lumbar treatment is this:

• To avoid warping and splitting of final product
• 28 days in a controlled environment
• Reduces moisture content to about 20%

Answer 12

Pre-Dried

Question 13

Which type of lumbar treatment is this:

• Average of 1-6 months
• Reduces moisture content to about 35%

Answer 13

Air Dried

Question 14

Which type of lumbar treatment is this:

• 4-7 days
• Reduces moisture content to 5-6%
• Vacuum, steam, and even microwave methods
• Dried lumbar is then stored until it’s ready
• Best way to dry wood

Answer 14

Kiln Drying

Question 15

Which species of wood is this:

• Smooth, thin layered bark
• Closed grain
• Heavy, white wood
• Often used in kitchen cabinetry
• Accepts a variety of stains

Answer 15

Birch

Question 16

Which species of wood is this:

• White, closed grained wood
• Often stained in a red hue
• High gloss (not matte, fingerprints can be visible)

Answer 16

Cherry

Question 17

Which species of wood is this:

• Considered the premier hardwood
• One of most expensive (requires numerous steps in the finishing process)
• Hardest to make
• Imported from Central America and Africa
• Fine grained hardwood
• Reddish brown

Answer 17

Mahogany

Question 18

Which species of wood is this:

• Light, closed grain wood
• May be finished in any stain
• Commonly used in bowling alley lanes

Answer 18

Maple

Question 19

Which species of wood is this:

• Known for its strength and durability
• Popular, light colored hardwood
• Most popular
• Typically stained in a medium brown color
• Red and white ___ caskets: approximately 1/3 of all hardwood caskets sold in US
• Commonly used in home interior trim and wood flooring

Answer 19

Oak

Question 20

Which species of wood is this:

-Like mahogany, this is expensive
- Brown wood
- Decreasing in popularity: due to high cost of raw lumbar
represents 2% of hardwood casket sales
- Rarely used in manufacture of furniture

Answer 20

Walnut

Question 21

Which species of wood is this:

• Soft wood, varies in grain pattern
• Known by its knots
• Low cost (attractive choice)

Answer 21

Pine

Question 22

What are knots?

Answer 22

Where the branch was on the wood

Question 23

What species of wood is this:

• Found in eastern and central US
• Soft white wood
• Adapt to any type of stain

Answer 23

Poplar

Question 24

What selected hardwood is this:

The component parts of a single casket will not necessarily be constructed of the same species of wood

Answer 24

Salix (Willow)

Question 25

What selected hardwood is this:

• Gluing together sheets of different materials
• A thin covering or layer over a thick base material
• It’s of finer quality than the inexpensive base
• Mad made product

Answer 25

Laminate

Question 26

What selected hardwood is this:

• Provides a rich appearance without the high cost of using the solid raw material

Answer 26

Wood Veneer

Question 27

What wood by-product is this:

• Used to construct lightweight, inexpensive caskets
• Similar to cardboard
• Used in the construction of: alternative containers and caskets for direct disposition

Answer 27

Corrugated fiberboard

Question 28

What wood by-product is this:

• Particles of wood bonded together with waterproof glue
• No lid, no interior, specifically for cremation)
• Man made product
• Types are distinguished by the size of the particles of wood used (pressed board, particle board, flake board)
• Used s a base for veneer

Answer 28

Composition Board

Question 29

What wood by-product is this:

• Thin sheets of wood glued together
  Grains are at right angles to one another
  Odd number of sheets is used so the grain on the front and back will run the same direction

Answer 29

Plywood

Question 30

Is wood a natural material?

Answer 30

Yes

Question 31

Will wood eventually decompose of placed directly in soil?

Answer 31

Yes

Question 32

What does it mean that wood is a porous material?

Answer 32

Water can soak into it

Question 33

Wood caskets don’t offer the same protection for the dead human body than what?

Answer 33

Protective or gasketed metal caskets

Question 34

Wood will allow the entrance of what over time?

Answer 34

Water and the earth’s elements