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  2. Ripsaw - Wikipedia

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    All sawmills use ripsaws of various types including the circular saw and band saw. Historically sawmills used one or more reciprocating saws more specifically known as an "up-and-down" or "upright saw" which are of two basic types, the frame saw or a muley (mulay) saw [2] which is similar to the hand powered pit saw. Some sawmills also use ...

  3. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

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    Any tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge used for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal by hand, with a mallet, or with mechanical power. Chiselling involves forcing the blade or cutting edge into the material in order to cut it. chop saw chops A type of vise. circular saw clamp. Also called a cramp.

  4. List of blade materials - Wikipedia

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    It is a tungsten type high speed containing high vanadium for excellent abrasion resistance, and cobalt for good red hardness, and is used for cutting difficult-to-machine materials where high frictional heating is encountered. Others. K390 - One of the most notorious representatives of the powder steels family.

  5. Rip cut - Wikipedia

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    Rip cuts are commonly made with a table saw, but other types of power saws can also be used, including a radial arm saw, band saw, and hand held circular saw.In sawmills the head saw is the first rip-saw a log goes through, which is sometimes a gang-saw, and then the cants may be resawn using other saws and then edged in an edger and sometimes cut to length by a crosscut saw.

  6. Rustication (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar. The visible face of each individual block is cut back around the edges to make its size and placing very clear.

  7. Router (woodworking) - Wikipedia

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    That is to say it is able to cut grooves, edge molding, and chamfer or radius the edge of a piece of wood. It is also possible to use it for cutting some joints. The shape of cut that is created is determined by the size and shape of the bit (cutter) held in the collet and the depth by the depth adjustment of the sole plate.

  8. Quarter sawing - Wikipedia

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    Wood cut in this way is prized for certain applications, but it will tend to be more expensive as well. In cutting a log, quarter sawn boards can be produced in several ways, but if a log is cut for maximum yield it will produce only a few quarter sawn boards among the total; if a log is cut to produce only quarter sawn boards there will be ...

  9. Woodworking - Wikipedia

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    Chisels are tools with a long blade, a cutting edge, and a handle. Used for cutting and shaping wood or other materials. [20] Claw hammer A common hammer, the claw hammer, used in woodworking and other activities: The claw hammer, which can hammer, pry, and pull nails, is the most common hammer used in woodworking. [20] Hand plane