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Woodworking tools, used specifically for carpentry, rather than in-workshop use, joinery or machining. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carpentry tools . Subcategories
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".
A bradawl is used to make indentations in wood or other materials in order to ease the insertion of a nail or screw. The blade is placed across the fibres of the wood, cutting them when pressure is applied. The bradawl is then twisted through 90 degrees which displaces the fibres creating a hole.
Carpenter's pincers are particularly suited to these tasks. Sharpened pincers are also used to cut away natural calluses, also called chestnuts, from a horses body. [1] Further use of pincers is the trimming of the edges of horses hoofs. [2] If the pincers have perpendicular cutting edges, the pincers are often called end-nippers or end-cutters ...
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.
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.
The carpentry tools we write about below cover the basics, such as a tape measure, cordless drill, and router. For heavy-duty projects that require more experience and muscle, you may need to ...
Among its basic uses are marking common, hip, valley and hip, or valley jack rafters, laying out stair stringers, determining and marking angles, and making square cuts on boards. Common lines made using a speed square include perpendicular cut marks and Angles definition of an angle for roofs, stairways, and decks. The tool uses a 0° reference.