hand tool: Quick Facts

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Illustration showing labeled basic carpentry hand tools, including backsaw, handsaw, try square, miter box, claw hammer, screwdriver, brace and bits, metal smoothing plane, level, rasps, chisels, punches, pliers, gimlet, awl, and tape measure.

Mycenaean dagger

Knife with a wooden handle and a Damascus steel blade featuring distinctive swirling patterns, displayed alongside leather sheaths and other knife handles.

Illustration showing seven types of screws and screw heads in a row, including a cap screw, machine screw with oval head, setscrew with hollow head, self-tapping screw, flat-head wood screw, machine screw with Phillips head, and lag screw, each labeled beneath.

Blacksmith's anvil

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