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  2. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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    Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue . The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands ...

  3. Woodworking - Wikipedia

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    Woodworking. Wooden house with wooden furniture, spinning wheel, loom and various tools. Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.

  4. Category : Tool manufacturing companies of South Africa

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    Pages in category "Tool manufacturing companies of South Africa" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Acheulean - Wikipedia

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    Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, and are typically found with Homo erectus remains. It is thought that Acheulean technologies first developed about 2 million years ago, derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology associated with Homo ...

  6. Jointer - Wikipedia

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    A jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer, and sometimes also as a buzzer or flat top) is a woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length. As a jointer, the machine operates on the narrow edge of boards, preparing them for use as butt joint ...

  7. Mallet - Wikipedia

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    An aluminum meat mallet, for tenderizing meat. Meat mallet. Cooking mallet for crushing crops. Indian cobbler tool kit, with an iron mallet. A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head.

  8. Howiesons Poort - Wikipedia

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    Howiesons Poort. Howiesons Poort (also called HP) is a technological and cultural period characterized by material evidence with shared design features found in South Africa, Lesotho, and Namibia. [ 1] It was named after the Howieson's Poort Shelter archaeological site near Grahamstown in South Africa, where the first assemblage of these tools ...

  9. Try square - Wikipedia

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    A try square or try-square is a woodworking tool used for marking and checking 90° angles on pieces of wood. Though woodworkers use many different types of square, the try square is considered one of the essential tools for woodworking. [1] The square in the name refers to the 90° angle. To try a piece of wood is to check if the edges and ...