Metal

A metal (from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon) 'mine, quarry, metal') is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.

Lathes are used in woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, thermal spraying, reclamation, and glass-working.

An anvil is a metalworking tool consisting of a large block of metal (usually forged or cast steel), with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck (or "worked").

This can be used to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock.

A chisel is useful for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal.

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.

The through-holes are of various shapes and sizes and are used to hold, support or back up a hot bar of metal for further shaping.

A marking gauge, also known as a scratch gauge, is used in woodworking and metalworking to mark out lines for cutting or other operations.

In metalworking, a fuller is a tool used to shape hot metal.

Hardy tools, also known as anvil tools or bottom tools, are metalworking tools used in anvils.

This causes the fire to become hotter in front of the blast than it would otherwise have been, enabling metals to be smelted or melted or made hot enough to be worked in a forge, though these are blown only with air.

The punched hole is lined up over the pritchel hole and the pritchel is driven into the hole, knocking out the remaining metal at the bottom of the punched hole.

A scriber is a hand tool used in metal work to mark lines on workpieces, prior to machining.

A ball-peen (also ball-pein) or machinist's hammer is a type of peening hammer used in metalworking.

An automatic center punch is a hand tool used to produce a dimple in a workpiece (for example, a piece of metal).

In metalworking, a drift pin, drift pin punch, simply drift, is the name for a tool used for localizing a hammer blow.

A hacksaw is a fine-toothed saw, originally and mainly made for cutting metal.

A machinist square or engineer's square is the metalworkers' equivalent of a try square.

A rasp is a coarse form of file used for shaping wood, metal, or other material.

Snips, also known as shears, are metalworking hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs.

A hand seamer is a manual sheet metal hand tool used to grip, bend, flatten, fold, or seam thin metal edges.

A needlegun scaler, needle scaler, or needle-gun is a tool used to remove rust, mill scale, and old paint from metal surfaces.

A circular saw is a tool for cutting many materials such as wood, masonry, plastic, or metal and may be hand-held or mounted to a machine.

A computer numerical control (CNC) router is a computer-controlled cutting machine which typically mounts a hand-held router as a spindle which is used for cutting various materials, such as wood, composites, metals, plastics, glass, and foams.

They have been used by blacksmiths, bladesmiths, metalworkers, and manufacturers since the late 1880s, having replaced trip hammers.

A scroll saw is a small electric or pedal-operated saw used to cut intricate curves in wood, metal, or other materials.

They are used principally in woodworking, metalworking, and lumber milling, but may cut a variety of materials.

Depending on the metal of the pipe, a pipecutter can often provide a faster, cleaner and more convenient way of cutting pipe than using a hacksaw.

The concept of the steam hammer was described by James Watt in 1784, but it was not until 1840 that the first working steam hammer was built to meet the needs of forging increasingly large iron or steel components.

A snarling iron is a metal worker's tool used to drive the walls of metal vessels.

Scissors are usually used for cutting thin materials such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, cloth, rope and wire, although a large variety of scissors/shears exist for specialized purposes, and their design details often dictate which is best for the intended job.