Below are important safety rules in woodworking

All injuries including slight ones, must be reported for treatment.

Always keep your eyes focused on your woodwork.

While working, avoid wearing loose clothings.

The working area must be free from dust, oil, and wood scraps.

Be sure that the tool handles are not broken.

Before leaving the shop, switch off electric power.

Know and observe safety measures specific for each tool or operation.

When woodworking, do not put fasteners or any small metals articles in or near the mouth.

Always keep fingers away from edges of sharp cutting tools.

Classification of Handtools

Measuring Tools

Rule. This is a 12-inch or one foot ruler. One side of the ruler is divided into inches, while the other side
is divided into centimetres or millimetres.

Measuring Tape. This made up of steel or cloth, and usually measuring from 25 to 100ft in length
divided into inches and feet or centimeters and meters.

Steel Rule. Also called the “pull-push” steel rule, this is 6 feeet or 2 meters in length, convenient for
either outside or inside measurements. It has a amall catch at its end that slips over one side of the
stock or board.

Two-Foot Folding Rule. This rule folds into an over-all compact length of 6 inches.

Zigzag Rule. This is a folding ruler of six eight feet (2 meters) in length.

Testing Tools

Dividers. These lay out arcs or circles and divide divide distances along a straight line.

Plumb Bob. This used for vertical alignment.

Steel Square. This is framing having two flat bladdes commonly used by woodworkers for a building
construction made of steel.

Tri Square. This is used to test the surface of the stock and to check adjacent surface for squaring.

Sliding T-Bevel. This is set with a framing square to measure or trsnsfer an angle between 0 degrees
angles.

Edge Cutting Tools

Bolo. This tool is used for cutting, paring, and scraping bamboo, coconut midribs, and rattan.

Chisel. This is a set which includes blades with width fro 1/8bto 2 inches used to trim shape woods.

Smooth Plane. Its width is from 1 ¼ to 2 inches. It is used for planning smaller pieces and smoothing the
surface.

Spokeshave. This is a small plane-like tool used to cut irregular shaped objects.

Tin Snip. This tool is used for cutting tin and other soft sheet metals.

Tooth Cutting Tools

Hack saw. This tool is used for cutting metals.

Files. These are the most common tooth cutting tools. These can be round, half round, and flat. These
are used for smoothing rough surfaces.

Cross Cut Saw. Each toolth of the cross cut saw is shaped like the blade of a knife. This is used for cutting
across the grain.

Rip Saw. This used to cut along the grain.

Key Hole Saw. This is a 10” or 12” narrow taper saw with fine teeth used to cut small openings with fie
work.

Back Saw. This is a fine-toothed crosscut saw with a heavy metal band across the back to straighten its
thin blades. It is used to refine cuts in making joints.

Marking Tools

Knife. This tool is used for very accurate marking. A sloyd knife is a very handy tool used for marking,
trimming fine edges, slicing pieces of thin wood, and whiling small pegs.

Marking Gauge. This is a wood or a metal tool consisting of a beam, head, and point used to mark a line
parallel to a given edge.

Scratch Awl. This is used in marking and punching the location of holes that are to be drilled or bored.
Trammel Point. This sets screw to be fixed at choosen points for striking arcs and circles beyond.

Holding Tools

Hand Screw. This is a wooden parallel clamp with jaws measuring 6 to 20 inches and open to a distance
of 4 to 20 inches. The jaws are opened or closed by turning the handle of each spindle.

C-Clamp. This tool is shaped like the letter c which is used to hold portions of work together.

Steel Bar Clamp. This is also known as the cabinet clamp. It is a steel beam or bar fitted with screw and
crank at one end, and a steel head which can be moved along the bar. It comes in various length of 2, 2
¼ , 3, 4, 5,6,7, and 8 feet.

Machinist Vise. This is a piece of equipment used for holding small woodworking articles.

Driving Tools

Screwdriver. This tool is used to tighten and loosen screw.

Philips Screwdriver. This is a device that drives screw with Philips head.

Nail set. This is used for driving nails below the wood surface.

Mallet. This is a wooden hammer used to drive chisel and gauges.

Claw Hammer. This is used to drive and pull out nails.

Sledge Hammer. This is used to demolish concrete walls or to crush rocks. It is a strong driver for
wedges, piles, or stakes.

Ball Peen Hammer. This is a ball of metal attached to the back of the head, used to make dents on metal
as well as to upset and expand end of the rust.

Boring and Drilling Tools

Gimblet. This is a small tool with a handle attached at right angles to the bit and used to bore holes on
wood or any article in basketry.

Hand Drill. This is used to hold twist for drilling small holes.

Expensive Bit. This is a bit that holds cutters of different sizes and used to bore a hole larger than 1 inch.

Auger Bit. This is a single twist or double twist bit sizes from no. 4 1/4 “ to 16” used to bore holes ¼” or
larger.

Brace. This has two common types: the plain for full swing and the rachet for close corners that is used
to hild and operate bits.
Twist Drill. The size is set from 1/64” to ½” best used to drill small holes for nails, screws, and many
others.

Sharpening Tools

Files. These are made in more varieties and are multi-purpose tools. They are classified according to
shape or their section like square, round, triangular, flat, halfround, and others.

Oil Stone. These tools are used on stones to clean the pores and littleparticles of steel cut from the tool.
This is used to sharpen edge cutting tools.

Grinding Stone Grinder. This is applied to grinding wheels made of natural standstone.