Types of Hand Tools

One of the advantages is their versatility. Of course, some have very specific functions, but just as three woodworkers might pick up three different tools to fit a joint, most of the tools can do a range of different work. Still, they can be broadly grouped according to the work they perform: marking and measuring, striking, chiseling, planning, scraping, boring, and sawing.

Marketing and Measuring Tools

• Marketing and measuring tools - rules, squares, compass, dividers, levels, marking gauges, bevel gauges, and chalk lines are the tools a woodworker uses to lay out cuts or joints. As construction proceeds, they are used for checking dimensions, aligning parts, or squaring up a frame or opening. Accuracy is important no matter what you are building, and making and measuring tools are reliable guides.

Striking Tools

What could be simpler or more essential to woodworking than a hammer or an ax? But which hammer or axes are the right one to choose from an incredible variety?

There are many such remarkable tools:

• Wooden mauls for driving wooden nails into massive frame construction
• Conventional Claw Hammers
• Axes and Adzes for Hewing and Shaping
• Ball-peen Hammers for Metal smithing
• Veneer Hammers and many others.

Few of the specialized hammers and the trades that used them survive, but there are some new ones around such as dead blow hammers and others with fiberglass heads and handles.

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Chisels

• Chisels are all-purpose cutting tools. Chopping mortises and tenons, cutting recesses for hinges, and doing all sorts of paring and fitting involved in woodworking joinery are just a few of their many uses. Curve a chisel's cutting edge and you have a gauge.
  
  



Chisels Cut and fit joints and shape wood. The Sheffield Standard List of 1864 advertised a variety of first-class chisels with fancy handles, as well as carving gouges with curved cutting edges

• A gouge is primarily a carving tool, but it can also be used for making or refining moldings, for coping joints, or for creating small details, such as pulls. Lengthen the cutting edge of a chisel, add two handles at right angles, and you have a draw knife, a tool indispensable to chair makers and anyone who works green wood.

Planes

• Planes are sophisticated chisels. Take a chisel-like iron and wedge it into the wood or metal body, and you have a plane, capable of everything from cutting rough boards into dimensioned stock to smoothing any surface to a glass like polish.
  
  



Planes are used the most useful of hand tools. These bench planes, which in clued a Norris #A6 smoother and Stanley Bedrocks #604, #605, and # 607, can make delicate fitting cuts, shoot long straight edges, or flatten a surface to a polished sheen

• Planes are used to cut and fit a variety of joints, as well as to create decorative moldings and to do much more. An 18th-century joiner would have used wooden planes; the planes we use today have long-wearing metal soles and easy-to-use adjusters.
  
  



Norris Bull Nose, shoulder, and chariot planes for fine-tuning joinery are among the most beautiful planes ever made and the most rare today

• Planes are not accessible tools to master, but they are arguably the most useful woodworking tools ever devised for working wood.

Scrapers, Files and Rasps

• Instead of a plane's chisel iron and knife like approach to the wood, tools work at a much higher angle with a tiny, hooked cutting edge burnished-not honed-onto the steel. The most basic scraper is simply a piece of flat steel about as thick as a handsaw blade, with either a straight edge for smoothing level surfaces or profited for scraping curved shapes, such as moldings.
  
  

• A scraper blade can be secured in a wood or iron holder (much like a plane body) with the sole to guide the cut and handles for a good grip. Scrapers are simple and incredibly versatile tools, well worth learning the tricks to sharpen and use.
  
  



A scrapper is as simple and versatile a tool as you can imagine. This elegant ebony spokeshave scraper, easy to hold and control, is ideal for something a curve.

• Files and rasps cut with a scraping action, employing everything from micro-fine file teeth to the pointed barbs on aggressive rasps. Ajay Industries use data mainly for sharpening and tuning other tools, and rasps for shaping curves or cutting in tight places where it's awkward to work with a plane or chisel.
  

Boring Tools

• The ability to drill straight, smooth, and consistent holes are easy to take for granted, but for centuries merely devising the bits that could do this was a challenge in itself. Creating the turning power was never a problem the simplest T-handle attached to a drill works fine, and sophisticated bow drills have used been since antiquity. The problem was designing an augured bit that could cut accurately, quickly, and without tremendous effort.
  
  



This elegantly board set of Russell Jennings "Precision Shank" twist bits (1855) slip securely into the ratcheting brace for boring quick and accurate holes

• Inventive minds took up the challenge, improving early spoon-shaped and cylindrical nose pieces to create twisted augers with spurs and chisel-like cutting lips and later modern brad-point and Forester bits.
  
  
• While power drills today are far more frequent than hand drills, a brace is still the best tool for drilling deep holes into bed rails for bed bolts, for driving screws. When you need a power, or for any boring where maximum control is essential. Chairmakers use bit braces to power hollow augers for cutting round tensions and hand-driven dowel pointers for easing their ends.
  

Saws

• From the finest-toothed hacksaw for cutting dovetails to coarse-toothed pit saws for ripping logs into boards, no other woodworking tool does quite as much work as the simple handsaw. The teeth cut like miniature knives or chisels, slicing the fibers and chiseling out the waste.
  
  



From a tiny clockmaker's hacksaw to the sweeping blade of a Japanese pit saw

• Learning to use a saw efficiently and accurately is vital to becoming a skilled woodworker. Yes, you can rely on a table saw or band saw as Ajay industries do, for much of the drudgery of sawing. But build anything complicated, and you will immediately see the limitations of machines and the simplicity and beauty of a handsaw. The same can said for any of this hand tools.