Chisel
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A chisel is a hand tool with a characteristic wedge-shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade. A chisel is useful for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal.
Neolithic stone chisels from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany around 4100 to 2700 BCE
A selection of modern wood chisels
A sharp wood chisel in combination with a forstner wood drill bit is used to form this mortise for a half-lap joint in a timber frame.
Woodturning with a long handled chisel
Hammer
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A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to an object. This can be used to drive nails into wood, to shape
Chisel
…Using a chisel involves forcing the blade into some material to cut it. The driving force may be applied by pushing by hand, or by using a mallet or hammer. In industrial use, a hydraulic ram or falling weight ('trip hammer') may be used to drive a chisel into the material. A gouge is a type of chisel that…
A modern claw hammer suited to drive and remove nails
Cartwheel mallets with heads of felt held between steel washers for use with timpani drums
Detail of the head of a war hammer
A geologist's hammer used to break up rocks, as seen in archaeology and prospecting