“Description

of materials
and tools”
Materials:
1. Lumber- Sawn timber.
2. Nails- Made of metal used for fastening woods.
3. Cement- A powdered substance which when
mixed with water acts as binder of aggregate.
4.Sand- Fine gritty, substance found in the shore
and desert.
5. Plywood- Thin cross laminated sheet of wood.
6. Gravel- Coarse aggregate.
Tools:
1. Pull-push-rule- used for measuring
long distance.
2. Claw hammer- used for driving and
pulling out nails.
3. Cross-cut-saw- tool used for cutting
across the grain.
4. Ripsaw- used for cutting along the
grain.
5. Plumb-bob- used for vertical
alignment.
6. Try square- used to test the squareness
of a stock.
7. Hack saw -fine toothed saw used to cut
metals and pipes.
8. Level bar- tool used in checking
vertical and horizontal position.
ASSIGNMENT:
Research on the classification of
hand tools.