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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. Alexander Mathieson & Sons - Wikipedia

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   The year 1792 was deemed by the firm to be that of its foundation; [1] it was in all likelihood the year in which John Manners had set up his plane-making workshop on Saracen('s) Lane off the Gallowgate [2] in the heart of Glasgow, not far from the Saracen's Head Inn, [3] where Dr. Johnson and James Boswell had stayed on their tour of Scotland in 1773.

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. Drill bit - Wikipedia

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   A spade drill bit for metal is a two part bit with a tool holder and an insertable tip, called an insert. The inserts come in various sizes that range from 7 ⁄ 16 to 2.5 inches (11 to 64 mm). The tool holder usually has a coolant passage running through it. [13] They are capable of cutting to a depth of about 10 times the bit diameter.

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