Technical progress in the wood industry has been rapid in recent times. In this case, the quality assurance of the consumer products aligned with aesthetics value appears as one of the most important parameters. Because of the outer appearance of goods exert an effect on customers, interest in production of high quality surfaces of wooden commodities has increased essentially based on the surface smoothness (and/or the surface roughness of wood) aiming to reach the customer-oriented quality criteria. An aesthetics behaviour is being more influenced than the functional situation of the merchandise when the customers making the decision to buy wood products. It has been well estabilished that some of the properties of wood material (i.e. density, porosity, moisture content, fiber directions), and the wood machining process and its conditions (i.e. kinematics of the cutting process, wood sanding process) make the surface smoothness of wood problematic. There is a lack of information about the effects of bleaching process (i.e. one of the special technical ways to increase the aesthetics of wood products) on the smoothness of wood surfaces despite numerous reports published on the machining tools and the cellular structure of wood. In this study, therefore, effects of bleaching process on the surface roughness of wood was investigated for Lebanon cedar (Cedrus libani A. Rich.) and Black poplar (Populus nigra L.) using the bleaching chemicals NaOH (sodium hydroxide), H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) and Ca(OH)2 (calcium hydroxide) by the two prescriptions with or without calcium hydroxide.

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