Crafting Tools
June 24, 2008 3:58 pm maria Crafts, Glossaries
| Abrasives: | family of smoothing tools including, sandpaper, grit paper, steel wool, sand sticks, sand blocks, taping and cording. Abrasives can be dry or wet. |
| Adhesives: | substance or chemical mixture used to temporarily or permanently bond two surfaces or items |
| Awl: | sharp pointed usually metal tool for hand punching holes or openings |
| Bevel: | instrument to balance or make centered |
| Blending Stump: | paper or soft textile stick used to blend pencil colors, chalk, pastels, or charcoal |
| Bone: | hard wood tool used to score other materials |
| Bow Saw: | hand held saw with thick blade anchored onto angled metal bridge, rough cutting |
| Brad Point Bit: | bit used on rounded surfaces for smoother cut or boring. |
| Brayer: | similar to a rolling pin used to smooth or flatten materials |
| Brush: | natural or man made bristles gathered and clamp to transport a medium to another medium; sponge, round, flat, stencil, and more |
| Burnisher: | metal or wood instrument used to smooth, shape, embellish, polish, or transfer one material to another; also referred to as a embossing tool |
| Calipers: | metal instruments used in measuring, inside and outside measurements use different calipers |
| Chisel: | metal tools used to create decorative work in wood or create edges. |
| Circular Saw: | hand held power tool with round or circle blade, rough to detail cuts |
| Clamps: | work holding device; C-clamps, bar, pipe, hand-screw, band, web, and specialty |
| Coping Saw: | hand held saw with thin cutting blade that is anchored across a metal bridge, fine cutting |
| Drill: | portable tool that can be hand held or placed in a press, used to bore holes, but anything is possible with the variety of bits available today. |
| Files: | hardened steel with rows of finely spaced cutting teeth for smoothing, trimming and sharpening |
| Hammer: | hard or soft head with handle to pound smooth or insert one item into another, over 30 varieties for specific tasks. Include the mallet which is a rubber headed tool |
| Kiln: | like an oven used in ceramic to heat or fire work |
| Lathe: | tool that allows carving or decoration of wood with a spinning or turning motion while wood is clamped to machine. |
| Loom: | frame used to weave materials or hold materials in place. |
| Miter Box: | guide created to give accurate cutting of angle |
| Needle: | instrument with eye which can be threaded with thin materials, point is sharp or blunted |
| Mold: | used to cast or shape mediums or materials |
| Palette Knife: | shaped like a pie cutter, used to transfer medium, smooth medium, or texture medium |
| Plane: | used to smooth or flatten wood, hand held or power |
| Radial Arm Saw: | power saw with round blades used where the material is stationary and the saw moves to cut |
| Ribs: | smooth hand size wood pieces with edges in different degrees of texture used to shape clays or other modeling mediums |
| Rifflers: | files with very small heads and large hand grips for detail work |
| Router: | portable power tool with changeable bits for variety of tasks from cutting to edging |
| Ruler: | also referred to in soft form as a tape, measurements in inches and meters |
| Sabre Saw: | hand held power tool which only one end of straight blade is attached to saw |
| Smoldering Iron: | heating tool used to melt metals or transfer metal to a surface |
| Square: | wood and metal tool used to make correct corners, edges, and cuts |
| Staple Gun: | hand or power tool that shoots staples or nails into material |
| Stylus: | metal rounded tip used to create perfect, consistent dots |
| Table Saw: | Stationary saw with a round blade use where material is moved to cut. |
| Tack Cloth: | very sticky cloth or fabric used to remove fine particles or dust from wood, metal, ceramic, etc. |
| Tjanting: | holds wax to use in applying lines of wax to materials as in batik |
| Trim Tool: | used to smooth or cut materials, wires of different shapes, thickness, and widths are clamped to a hand held handle |
| Wheel: | table with flat top that rotates or spins |
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