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  2. 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.

  3. Category:Hand tools - Wikipedia

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    العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Boarisch; Bosanski; Català; Čeština

  4. Snips - Wikipedia

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    Snips, also known as shears, are hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs. It is a cutting tool. Workers use various types of snips, with the cutting edges being straight or curved to various degrees. The style of edge employed will depend if a straight sheer or some type of shapes cut is necessary.

  5. McLeod (tool) - Wikipedia

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    A McLeod tool (or rakehoe) is a two-sided blade — one a rake with coarse tines, one a flat sharpened hoe — on a long wooden handle. It is a standard [1] tool during wildfire suppression and trail restoration. [2] The combination tool was created in 1905 by Malcolm McLeod, a United States Forest Service ranger at the Sierra National Forest ...

  6. Bow drill - Wikipedia

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    A bow drill is a simple hand-operated type of tool, consisting of a rod (the spindle or drill shaft) that is set in rapid rotary motion by means of a cord wrapped around it, kept taut by a bow which is pushed back and forth with one hand. This tool of prehistoric origin has been used both as a drill, to make holes on solid materials such as ...

  7. Category:Hand-held power tools - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Woodworking hand-held power tools (1 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Hand-held power tools"

  8. Drawknife - Wikipedia

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    A drawknife (drawing knife, draw shave, shaving knife) [1] is a traditional woodworking hand tool used to shape wood by removing shavings. It consists of a blade with a handle at each end. The blade is much longer (along the cutting edge) than it is deep (from cutting edge to back edge). It is pulled or "drawn" (hence the name) toward the user.

  9. Antique Woodworking Tools - Wikipedia

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    A wide array of edge and boring tools provides a broad survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today. Writing in The Times, Huon Mallalieu encapsulated the function of the book: "Over the past 35 years [David Russell] has amassed probably the world’s largest collection of antique woodworking tools from the Stone Age to the 20th century ...