. Teacher's handbook of Slöjd . tc/ Fig. 75. Brad-awl. ^. X. The Mallet, the Hammer, the Hand Vice, Pincers,and Screwdriver. The Mallet (Fig. 76) is made of hard, strong wood, pre-ferably of figured beech. It is used for striking tools withwooden handles, because the hard hammer in such cases TOOLS. 113. would not only do damage, but would not serve the purposeso well. _ _ The Hammer (Fig. 77) con-sists of a piece of steel with ahole for the handle, called theeye. One end is cylindrical andterminates in a flat surface,called the face; the other end,which is called the pane, iswedge-shaped, wit
. Teacher's handbook of Slöjd . tc/ Fig. 75. Brad-awl. ^. X. The Mallet, the Hammer, the Hand Vice, Pincers,and Screwdriver. The Mallet (Fig. 76) is made of hard, strong wood, pre-ferably of figured beech. It is used for striking tools withwooden handles, because the hard hammer in such cases TOOLS. 113. would not only do damage, but would not serve the purposeso well. _ _ The Hammer (Fig. 77) con-sists of a piece of steel with ahole for the handle, called theeye. One end is cylindrical andterminates in a flat surface,called the face; the other end,which is called the pane, iswedge-shaped, with a roundededge. That the handle may bequite firm, the eye widens at thesides, and wedges driven hardinto the end of the handle cause it to fill up the cavity entirely. Fig. 76. Mallet, h Fig. 77. Ham-mer, i. There are various kinds of pincers, but only those usedin wood slojd need be named here. Pincers have two steelarms rivetted together. The rivet divides the arms into twounequal portions,the longer, orhandles, and theshorter, or jaws. The ordinarypincers have Fig. 78. Pincers, i. short, broad, sharply curved jaws, and are used to extractnails, etc. The wire-cutter resembles the preceding, but is slighter inmake, and itsarms are curvedand its jawssharper. It isused to snap offpieces of wire,
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