Tools {cutting tool} can include knife sharpener, putty knife, taping knife, and utility knife. Cutting tools can include oilstone, sander, sanding block, sandpaper, and steel wool. Sandpaper has be silicon carbide, aluminum oxide, garnet, or emery. Cutting tools can include saw, crosscut saw across wood grain, ripsaw along wood grain, circular saw, backsaw and miter box, keyhole saw or compass saw, tooth-saw, coping saw for curves, and hacksaw for metal. Cutting tools can include wire brush, scraper, plane, block plane, smoothing plane, jack plane, jointer plane, chisel, bench chisel, cold chisel, four-in-hand, rasp, wood rasp, rattail file, single-cut file, double-cut file, metal file, and file. Cutting tools can include tin snips, tube cutters, box cutters, and glasscutters.
Curved axes {adz} {adze} can be for wood shaping.
Boring points {auger} can be for concrete.
blade in holder {box cutter}.
Cutting tools {file, tool} include rattail file, single-cut file, double-cut file, and metal file. Rough-surfaced tools can smooth, shape, and grind.
small hardened wheel in holder {glasscutter}.
Hard metal cutters {pipe cutter} can be for hand scoring pipe.
Planes {plane, tool} include scraper, plane, block plane, smoothing plane, jack plane, and jointer plane. Flat surface has barely exposed blade to scrape off wood.
Long handles with scissors on end {pruning hook} can cut twigs.
Metal tools {reamer} can shape or enlarge holes.
Long bent handles with perpendicular curved blades {scythe} can mow or reap grasses.
Short handles with curved blades projecting from end {sickle} can cut grasses.
Small hardened wheel in tube holder {tube cutter} can cut tubes.
Boring points {awl} for leather or wood can make holes or scratches.
Points {bodkin} can make holes in leather or cloth.
Tools {broach} can make holes bigger or change hole shapes.
Chisels {chisel} include bench chisel and cold chisel. Tip with sharp edge is for scraping.
Chisels {gouge} can have a convex curved blade, to carve grooves.
Knives {knife} {knives} include knife sharpener, oilstone, putty knife, taping knife, and utility knife.
Large knives {jackknife, knife} can fold into handle.
Knives {lancet} can have a small pointed double-edge blade.
knife sharpener {oilstone}.
Knives {scalpel} can have a thin sharp blade at tip, for surgery.
Rasps {rasp} include four-in-hand and wood rasp. It is like a file with high points.
cut-metal rough edge {burr}.
Sanders {sander} {sanding tool} include sander, sanding block, sandpaper, and steel wool. Grades are from coarse to superfine.
Cloth or paper {backing} can have silicon carbide, aluminum oxide, garnet, or emery {sandpaper}. Coat can be open or closed.
Saws {saw, tool} include crosscut saw, ripsaw, circular saw, backsaw and miter box, keyhole saw or compass saw, tooth-saw, coping saw, and hacksaw. Blade with teeth can cut stone, wood, metal, or plastic.
Rectangular shaped saws {backsaw} can be in an open-top miter box with slits.
Saws {band saw} can have a continuous serrated edge.
Power saws {buzz saw} can have a circular blade.
Handsaws {carpenter's saw} can be for wood only, with one handle and one edge.
disk {circular saw}.
for curves {coping saw}.
Saws {crosscut saw} and panels can change angle to cut across wood grain.
Hard metal saws {hacksaw} in a rectangular frame can cut metal.
Saws {jigsaw} can have a vertical wire blade, to cut curves in wood or plastic.
pointed saw {keyhole saw} {compass saw}.
U-shaped containers {miter box} can have sides that have grooves, to hold board and guide angled and square cuts.
Saws {ripsaw} can have big teeth to cut along grain.
Racks or trestles {sawhorse} can support wood for sawing.
jigsaw {scroll saw}.
with angled teeth {tooth-saw}.
Big crosscut saws {whipsaw} can be for two people.
Scissors {scissors} include tin snips {tin snip}. Two blades have circular openings for fingers and connect in middle.
Scissors {pinking shears} can have zigzag or scalloped blades, to cut cloth.
scissors {shears}.
scissors {snips}.
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