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2. Square (tool) - Wikipedia

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   Framing square, or steel square, or carpenter's square, or roofing square Originally designed for timber framing, a framing square is made from a single flat piece of metal or polymer to a standardised design with a long, wide blade and at 90° to that a shorter, narrower tongue. It can also be used for measuring lengths and for calculating angles.

3. 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.

4. Speed square - Wikipedia

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   Albert J. Swanson invented the "A" Speed Square in 1925 as a carpenter's layout tool. He later founded the Swanson Tool Company to mass produce his invention. [3] Today, the Swanson Tool Company still manufactures and distributes the Speed Square and other carpentry tools from its headquarters in Frankfort, Illinois.

5. Chalk line - Wikipedia

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   As with many such tools, they are often made by their users while apprentices. [6] Upon the completion of a major building, a large celebration or topping-out ceremony is held. As part of this event, a set of symbolic carpenter's tools are freshly made and presented to the new building. A sumitsubo is a traditional tool included with them.

6. 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.

7. Category:Carpentry tools - Wikipedia

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   Woodworking tools, used specifically for carpentry, rather than in-workshop use, joinery or machining. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories ...

8. Plane (tool) - Wikipedia

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   Craftsman No. 5 jack plane A hand plane in use. A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools used for the same types of larger tasks, but are unsuitable for fine-scale planing, where a miniature hand plane is used.

9. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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   Conversion of logs into timbers was often done by someone other than the timber framer including a lumberjack, sawyer, farmer, or laborer using a variety of tools including: Whipsaw types of rip saws used in the conversion of logs into timbers in a saw pit; felling, carpenter's, and broad axes are used in hewing. Sawmill