Carpentry Tools Information
Carpentry tools are used to cut, shape or otherwise alter the look, feel, and dimensions of pieces and sections of wood to fulfill a particular purpose, such as making dresser drawers, building homes, or to make holes for door handles. Using specific power tools, sections of wood can be joined together with specific joints to create a strong connection, strengthening the construction of the object.
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Power Tools
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Carpenters use power tools such as table saws to cut large pieces of wood, routers to create rounded edges, jigsaws to cut specialized shapes and power drills to create purposeful holes in wood for screws or fixtures, like in the case of a door handle.
Hand Tools
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Some carpenters enjoy using hand tools, such as a hand saw to trim the wood into specifically sized pieces, hammers and nails to secure pieces together, screwdrivers to secure or remove screws and chisels to remove specific sections of the wood to fit them with other pieces of wood, as in the case of a tongue-and-groove joint.
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Dovetail Joints
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A router is a very useful carpentry tool to make joints for dresser drawers. One of these joints is involves creating a series of short, curved fingers and matching spaces that interlock, called a dovetail, forming a very strong corner joint.
Tongue and Groove
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A tongue-and-groove joint is made by using a carpenter's tool called a table saw, using a double blade called a dado. This dado blade, when lowered, can cut away a groove in the center of the wood for a matching projection cut from the ends of another piece of wood in order to join the two pieces together.
Home Building
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Carpenters who build homes use a carpentry tool called a nail gun to hasten their building. Nail guns use compressed air to drive nails into the wood to save time with connecting the timbers that make up the structure of the house and to secure roof shingles to the surface of the roof.
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