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2. Brace (tool) - Wikipedia

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   The earliest carpenter's braces equipped with a U-shaped grip, that is with a compound crank, appeared between 1420 and 1430 in Flanders. [1] The brace has other names. Bit brace is the most often used name, but Carpenter's brace, ratchet brace (if a ratchet mechanism is incorporated into the design), and swing brace are also commonly used.

3. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

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   A tool used to shape and smooth wooden rods and shafts, often for use as wheel spokes and chair legs. square 1. A tool such as a steel square, try square, or combination square. 2. A right angle. 3. A unit of area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.3 m 2). sticker A small block of wood used to separate boards that are in the process of drying.

4. 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 of ...

5. Gimlet (tool) - Wikipedia

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   A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Joseph Gwilt's Architecture (1859) as "a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other". [1] A gimlet is always a small tool.

6. Tool steel - Wikipedia

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   Tool steel is any of various carbon steels and alloy steels that are particularly well-suited to be made into tools and tooling, including cutting tools, dies, hand tools, knives, and others. Their suitability comes from their distinctive hardness , resistance to abrasion and deformation, and their ability to hold a cutting edge at elevated ...

7. Steel square - Wikipedia

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   The steel square is a tool used in carpentry. Carpenters use various tools to lay out structures that are square (that is, built at accurately measured right angles ), many of which are made of steel , but the name steel square refers to a specific long-armed square that has additional uses for measurement, especially of various angles .