Wood

Wood is a natural, lignocellulosic material derived primarily from the secondary xylem of trees and other woody plants, where it provides mechanical support and in the functional sapwood, conducts water and dissolved minerals.

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

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 drawknife (drawing knife, draw shave, shaving knife) is a traditional woodworking hand tool used to shape wood by removing shavings.

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.

A coping saw is a type of bow saw used to cut intricate external shapes and interior cut-outs in woodworking or carpentry.

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

A froe (or frow), shake axe or paling knife is a tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain.

They are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking, and as a hoe for agriculture and horticulture.

A miter box or mitre box (British English) is a wood working appliance used to guide a hand saw for making precise cuts, usually 45° miter cuts.

Backsaws are normally used in woodworking for precise work, such as cutting dovetails, mitres, or tenons in cabinetry and joinery.

A bench hook is a workbench appliance used to secure wood for many tasks in woodworking.

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.

A bucksaw is a metal-framed crosscut saw in the shape of a bow with a coarse wide blade generally used with a sawbuck to cut logs or firewood to length (bucking).

A crosscut saw (thwart saw) is any saw designed for cutting wood perpendicular to (across) the wood grain.

Although traditionally intended for woodwork, different blades increase the versatility of this saw.

A woodworking vise (vice in UK English) is a type of vise adapted to the various needs of woodworkers and woodworking.

An auger is a device to drill wood or other materials, consisting of a rotating metal shaft with a blade at the end that scrapes or cuts the wood.

A card scraper or cabinet scraper is a woodworking shaping and finishing tool.

A chamfer plane is a specialized plane used In woodworking for making chamfered edges.

The fore plane is a type of woodworking bench plane typically used for preparing and flattening rough workpieces before using other planes, such as the jointer plane and the smoothing plane.

A grooving plane, plow plane, or plough plane is a plane used in woodworking to make grooves and (with some of the metal versions) small rabbets.

A jack plane is a general-purpose woodworking bench plane, used for dressing timber down to size in preparation for truing and/or edge jointing.

The jointer plane, also known as the try plane or trying plane, is a type of hand plane used in woodworking to straighten the edges of boards in the process known as jointing, and to flatten the faces of larger boards.

The rebate plane (British English) or rabbet plane (American English) is a hand plane designed for cutting rebates/rabbets in wood.

A router plane is a hand plane tool used in the field of woodworking for smoothing out sunken panels, and more generally for all depressions below the general surface of the lumber.

The scrub plane is a type of plane used to remove large amounts of wood from the surface of lumber, such as when eliminating cup or twist in the first stages of preparing rough stock, or when reducing the thickness of a board significantly.

It is used when it is necessary to trim right into the concave corner where two surfaces of the same piece of wood meet perpendicularly.

A thickness planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a thicknesser or in North America as a planer) is a woodworking machine used to plane boards to a consistent thickness throughout their length, with two parallel faces.

A shooting board is a jig for woodworking which is used in combination with a hand plane to trim and square up the edges and ends of boards.

A smoothing plane or smooth plane is a type of bench plane used in woodworking.

A corner chisel is a tool for cutting sharp internal corners in wood, often used for mortise joints or hinge rebates.

They are used for cutting wood or stone.

The Japanese saw or nokogiri (鋸) is a type of saw used in woodworking and Japanese carpentry that cuts on the pull stroke, unlike most European saws, that cut on the push stroke.

A ripsaw (or rip saw) is a wood saw that is specially designed for making a rip cut, a cut made parallel to the direction of the wood grain.

A scratch awl is a woodworking layout and point-making tool.

A marking knife or striking knife is a woodworking layout tool used for accurately marking workpieces.

They are used for light wood finishing, lettering, skimming, and modeling.

A scratch stock is a woodworking tool used for applying decorative treatments, such as beads to furniture and other wooden items.

A wood scribe is a tool for marking wood by scratching the surface visibly.

A pole lathe, also known as a springpole lathe, is a wood-turning lathe that uses the resilience of a long pole as a return spring for a treadle.

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

Race knife also known as a timber scribe (scorer, tree marker) is a knife with a U-shaped end sometimes called a scoop knife for cutting marks in wood by lumbermen, carpenters, coopers, surveyors, and others.

The weighted end helps the operator follow through with the force necessary for the hooked blade to scoop out chips of hard pine wood.

A burnisher is a hand tool used in woodworking for creating a burr on a card scraper.

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.

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

A jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer, and sometimes also as a buzzer or flat top) is a woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length.

A belt sander or strip sander is a sander used in shaping and finishing wood and other materials.

A mortiser or morticer is a specialized woodworking machine used to cut square or rectangular holes in a piece of lumber (timber), such as a mortise in a mortise and tenon joint.

A wood shaper (usually just shaper in North America or spindle moulder in the UK and Europe), is a stationary woodworking machine in which a vertically oriented spindle drives one or more stacked cutter heads to mill profiles on wood stock.

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

The drive mechanism is mounted below a table that provides support for the material, usually wood, being cut, with the blade protruding up through the table into the material.

A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a form of hammer used to drive nails into wood or other materials.

In woodworking, a saw-horse or sawhorse (saw-buck, trestle, buck) is a trestle structure used to support a board or plank for sawing.

Carpenters use it to make basic measurements and mark lines on dimensional lumber, and as a saw guide for short 45 and 90 degree cuts.

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 blade of a grafting knife is beveled, or curved, on one side and flat on the other so that the knife can cut easily through wood with a flat cut that provides the most contact possible in the finished graft.

Carpenter's axes or carpenter's hatchets are small axes, usually slightly larger than a hatchet, used in traditional woodwork, joinery, and log-building.

A bench dog is a removable stop used in a woodworking workbench to hold a piece of wood.

A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammerhead on the other side.