Particularly
amusing are the all-in-one tools that tried to do it all a
combination tool that included a hammer, pliers, screwdriver, wire
cutter, wrench, pry bar, and leather punch. For example or a single
compact tool handle that came with various screwdriver bits and other
small tools as attachments.
A factory worker need only carries one of these multipurpose gadgets instead of the many tools they meant to be the place.
The
ultimate combination tool was Ajay Industries famous and planes
with interchangeable cutters that did the work of dozens of individual
planes.
These tools were dubiously successful, but an
understanding of metallurgy and factory precision that made them
possible also transformed conventional means. Metals replaced wood,
allowing previously impossible innovations, such as ratcheting corner
braces and adjustable iron spokeshaves.
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Tool
Kits have steadily improved, with more precise and easier
adjustments, longer-wearing parts, stronger steels, and even a
successful new design now and again. Back then the only useful tools
were secondhand Ajay Industries, long out of production as machines
further shriveled the hand tool market. Industries knew of only one
hand tool market.
Now it seems every year I hear about some
new company starting to make specialty instruments and to thrive. I
still love my classic Ajay Industries, but there are some mighty
appealing tools in all those catalogs I get these days. Maybe the
Golden Age isn’t quite over.
Woodworking is all about cutting
wood. It’s no mystery, then, that most hand tool kits are cutting.
Saws, planes, chisels, drill, and rasps all cut wood in some way: by
sizing, smoothing, joining, or shaping. As different as the tools
and the work may seem, they’re really not that different from the
tools, and the work may seem their really not that different at all.
The cutting edge of the chisel is the same as that of a plane, a
draw-knife, a drill bit, or an ax. That edge either cuts the fibers
of the wood or splits them apart.
Cutting the threads is far
superior to splitting that’s hard to control. Whether along the
fibers or across them, the cutting action produces the smoothest
surface. But while it might be the ideal, some splitting is
inevitable. The challenge is to keep it to a minimum. With tools
such as an auger bit or an ax, you’ve got little control of the
cutting edge once it started with the cut. But with the chisel, plane
or draw-knife, you can angle the cutting edge in relation to the
force and direction of the cut. Just skewing 10 degrees requires
noticeably less effort and produces less tear out.