Hand tools

A paintbrush is a brush used to apply paint or ink. A paintbrush is usually made by clamping bristles to a handle with a ferrule. They are available in various sizes, shapes, and materials. Thicker ones are used for filling in, and thinner ones are used for details. They may be subdivided into decorators' brushes used for painting and decorating and artists' brushes used for visual art.

thumb|Ceremony hammer of a miner VEB Kombinat Senftenberg (GDR) - with honorary uniform

thumb|right|upright=0.3|A crowbar with a curved chisel end to provide a lever|fulcrum for leverage and a goose neck to pull nails

geometry device used for technical drawing

shaped steel or other metal tool with a blunt end that may be struck with a hammer to produce indents (but not holes) in a material

tool held and powered manually

thumb|Plumbing plunger in a sink

thumb|Typical full-size hacksaw frame, with 12" blade

any type of handheld saw

an L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end

device for cleaning ears

woodworking shaping and finishing tool

type of Stone Age tool

American conglomerate

instrument used to extinguish burning candles

tools and instruments used for accurate and precise manual draughting

tool consisting of a brush whose bristles are made of wire, most often steel wire

thumb|250px|A common wooden backscratcher thumb|250px|Distinct styles of backscratchers in action, employing different itch-relieving techniques. A backscratcher, sometimes known as a scratch-back, is a hand tool used for scratching the skin in order to relieve an itch in areas that cannot easily be reached just by one's own hands, typically the back. Although the backscratcher was an early human invention, other primates have been observed using similar tools.

handheld tool for removing frost, ice, and snow from windows

electric light that is mechanically driven by an electric generator using muscle power

thumb|Punkahs in the house of a British couple in India c. 1880 thumb|A punkah in the house of French colonials in Indochina c. 1930 thumb|Church interior with an intricate system of punkahs c. 1900

thumb|300px|Early Roman Dolabra.

forcible entry tool used by firefighters and law enforcement

Dadeumi () or dadeumijil () is a Korean traditional ironing method where two women kneel on the floor, facing each other across a smoothing stone, and beat a rhythm on the cloth using a wooden bat to press out its wrinkles and soften it. Dadeumi requires dadeumitbangmangi (), a bat that pounds on the cloth, and dadeumitdol (다듬잇돌), the stone under the cloth. The bat may also be called hongdukkae (홍두깨). Dadeumi is used to iron thin cloth, such as ramie fabric () or silk.

small metal-bodied woodworking hand plane

Longshore Hook

A bullwhip is a single-tailed whip, usually made of braided leather or nylon, designed as a tool for working with livestock or for competition cracking.

hand tool