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  2. Ernest Wright (scissors maker) - Wikipedia

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    A short video documentary about the firm was published on YouTube by Business Insider in April 2020, and has since been viewed over 6.3 million times. [6] In October 2020, Ernest Wright won the Heritage Crafts Association's inaugural President's Award for Endangered Crafts, which was initiated by the Prince of Wales. [7]

  3. Woodturning - Wikipedia

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    Detail of woodturning in work A turned wood bowl with natural edges Bowl turning. Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a

  4. List of tool manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Industrial hand tools Griffon Corporation: Ames True Temper: outdoor hand tools [15] King Dick Tools: Birmingham United Kingdom: King Dick: Mechanics tools, engineers tools Klein Tools: Lincolnshire, Illinois, US: Klein Tools

  5. Lathe - Wikipedia

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    Modern metal lathe A watchmaker using a lathe to prepare a component cut from copper for a watch. A lathe (/ l eɪ ð /) is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about ...

  6. Machine tool - Wikipedia

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    Woodbury, Robert S. (1972a). "History of the Lathe to 1850: A Study in the Growth of a Technical Element of an Industrial Economy". In Woodbury (1972). Woodbury, Robert S. (1972) [1961], Studies in the History of Machine Tools, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and London, England: MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-73033-4, LCCN 72006354. Collection of ...

  7. Cutting tool material - Wikipedia

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    Cutting tool materials are materials that are used to make cutting tools which are used in machining (drill bits, tool bits, milling cutters, etc.) but not other cutting tools like knives or punches.

  8. Scissors - Wikipedia

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    A pair of standard scissors. Scissors are hand-operated shearing tools. A pair of scissors consists of a pair of blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles (bows) opposite to the pivot are closed. Scissors are used for cutting various thin materials, such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, cloth, rope ...

  9. Woodworking machine - Wikipedia

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    A Woodworking machine is a machine that is intended to process wood. These machines are usually powered by electric motors and are used extensively in woodworking . Sometimes grinding machines (used for grinding down to smaller pieces) are also considered a part of woodworking machinery.