It looked real pretty against the smooth wood and the silver squares.

She took a deep breath and touched the smooth wood.

There was nothing on the smooth wood of the surface, not even that much dust.

I had an urge to knock on the smooth wood.

He began to work upon the smooth wood, but to no avail.

There was the circle: a large ring of smooth white wood set on a box.

He took the plane off the door edge and ran his hand along the smooth wood again.

All he found was old Irish crystal and smooth wood.

Katie kept running her hands over the smooth, polished wood of the defense table.

I put a hand on the smooth wood of the bar.

FILES for smoothing and shaping metal and wood are useful and inexpensive additions to any do-it-yourselfer's tool kit.

But for sanding old finishes down to bare wood, or for smoothing worn, warped or rough-hewn wood, choose a belt sander.

FOR smoothing wood, most amateur woodworkers and even professionals think first of using sandpaper.

But smoothing wood can be as much a question of choosing the right materials or tools as using the right technique.

Sander is a power tool used for smoothing wood.

After five metres the floor became level and the walls widened out to a couple of metres, the coarse mat of fibre which passed for the gigantea's bark giving way to smooth bare wood.

Absently, he wondered how such gripping soles were made; they were plainly superior to smooth leather or wood.

They smoothed wood with planes, made and repaired barrels, wagons, sleds, sledges, and even small boats for the canals in summer.

BEFORE sandpaper became popular, woodworkers, especially cabinetmakers, relied on a simple tool called a hand scraper for smoothing wood prior to applying finish.