Woodworking hand tools

thumb|Double- and single-bit felling axesFile:An axe labelled-2edit.svg|thumb|upright|A diagram showing the main points on an axe An axe (; sometimes spelled ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for thousands of years to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, and as a weapon. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of a head with a sharpened blade (also called a "bit") attached to a handle (also called "haft" or "helve").

thumb|right|upright=1.3|A modern claw hammer suited to drive and remove nails thumb|Cartwheel mallets with heads of felt held between steel washers for use with [[timpani drums]] thumb|Detail of the head of a war hammer thumb|right|A geologist's hammer used to break up rocks, as seen in [[archaeology and prospecting]]

A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered, used for turning screws.

tool for cutting chips of controllable thickness from a material, thereby smoothing a surface or adjusting the thickness of a workpiece

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thumb|250px|A set of metric spanners or wrenches, open at one end and box/ring at the other. These are commonly known as “combination” spanners.

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

tool to process wood

fastening tool that applies pressure on two opposite ends to hold objects together

thumb|Rubber mallets thumb|A wooden mallet thumb|Rawhide mallet thumb|Stonemason's mallets of plastic, wood and steel thumb|An iron mallet with copper faces. Solid head copper mallets are produced with a round or square head thumb|An aluminium [[meat mallet, for tenderizing meat]] thumb|Meat mallet. thumb|Cooking mallet for crushing crops. thumb|Indian cobbler tool kit, with an iron mallet A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head.

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

type of hand drill

right|thumb|Traditional draw knife|350px A drawknife (drawing knife, draw shave, shaving knife) 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.

thumb|Fine wood rasp thumb|Farrier using a two-sided file, double-cut on the visible side and rasp cut against a horse's hoof

small tool for making holes

right|thumb|300px|European style woodworking workbenchIn most instances the "end caps" and the "shoulder vise arm" are significantly thicker than is shown above. Indeed, this shoulder vice and its "arm" appear to be incomplete.

saw

thumb|right|Fretsaw The fretsaw is a bow saw used for intricate cutting work which often incorporates tight curves. The tool takes its name from its use in fretwork. Although traditionally intended for woodwork, different blades increase the versatility of this saw.

thumb|Comparison of countersunk and counterbored holes.

knife used for general or utility purposes

handtools for marking and checking 90° and 45° angles

any type of handheld saw

woodworking shaping and finishing tool

type of handheld saw

hand-held machine used to drive heavy metal staples into wood, plastic, or masonry

thumb|300px|A very large, single-bevel broadaxe

flat tool used in carpentry to mark right angles and calculate angles

thumb|300px|right|Three backsaws: dōzuki (top), Gent's saw and Tenon saw

woodworking tool used to guide a saw for the purpose of cutting a given angle

common carpentry tool

type of saw

A spokeshave is a hand tool used to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making cart wheel spokes, chair legs, paddles, bows, and arrows. The tool consists of a blade fixed into the body of the tool, which has a handle for each hand. Historically, a spokeshave was made with a wooden body and metal cutting blade. With industrialization metal bodies displaced wood in mass-produced tools. Being a small tool, a spokeshave is not suited to working large surfaces.

type of saw optimized for cutting across wood fibres

mechanical saw used to obtain precise angle cuts

type of hammer used in metalworking

prehistoric form of drilling tool

thumb|right|300px|A ripsaw

short, replaceable screwdriver blade

thumb|300px|right|A froe A froe (or frow), shake axe or paling knife is a tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain. It is an L-shaped tool, used by hammering one edge of its blade into the end of a piece of wood in the direction of the grain, then twisting the blade in the wood by rotating the haft (handle).

type of bow saw used to cut intricate external shapes and interior cut-outs in woodworking or carpentry

the process of setting the teeth of a saw so each tooth protrudes to the side of the blade

small metal-bodied woodworking hand plane

narrow saw used for cutting curves

pencil with elliptical or rectangular cross-section, which can be used to draw on rough surfaces

thumb|Two Stanley Hand Tools|Stanley Surform planes thumb|Two Stanley Surform pocket planes A surform tool (also surface-forming tool) features perforated sheet metal and resembles a food grater. A surform tool consists of a steel strip with holes punched out and the rim of each hole sharpened to form a cutting edge. The strip is mounted in a carriage or handle. Surform tools were called "cheese graters" decades before they entered the market as kitchen utensils used to grate cheese. Surform planes have been described as a cross between a rasp and a plane.

A bradawl is a woodworking hand tool with a blade similar to that of a straight screwdriver and a handle typically made from wood or plastic. An awl is any kind of small pointed tool.

tool for layout and point marking

hand tool

hand tool

thumb|Using a bucksaw and sawbuck to cut a log

measuring and marking tool