What tools did ancient carpenters have?

1, saw

Saw is one of the traditional woodworking tools, which is used for transverse cutting and longitudinal decomposition of wood. Manual sawing has a long history. Band saw blade is also called "saw blade". The sawing angle is generally 45 belt inclination angle, and the saw teeth are separated one by one from the left and right, which is convenient for the saw blade to reciprocate in the sawing seam.

Among them, the frame saw and saw blade are installed on one side, and the rope frame is installed on the other side for winding and twisting, and the bamboo insert is fixed, so that the tightness and angle of the saw blade can be adjusted, which is very reasonable and convenient.

Frame saw can be divided into three types according to the length and pitch of saw blade: coarse, medium and fine. The length of the coarse saw blade is 650-750 mm and the pitch is 4-5 mm, which is mainly used for sawing thick wood. The middle saw blade 550-650 is 3-4 mm long and has a pitch of 3-4 mm. It is mainly used for sawing thin wood or tenoning. The length of the fine saw blade is 450—500mm, and the pitch is 2-3mm. Mainly used for sawing fine wood and tenoning shoulders.

2. Aircraft

Planer is a common tool for making traditional classical furniture, which consists of planer and planer. The planer is made of metal, and the planer is made of wood, that is, a section of steel knife is inserted obliquely on a base with square holes and pressed by a pressing iron. The base is long, with handles on the left and right sides, which is convenient to hold.

The process of manual planing is the process that the planer keeps cutting wood during the forward movement of the planer. Planing or processing the surface of wood is called planing. After wood is scored, chiseled and sawn, it is called net material. After the furniture structure is combined, the whole planing is called net light. The history of planning in Taiwan Province can be traced back at least to the Ming Dynasty.

Step 3 chop with an axe

Axe is a traditional woodworking tool. Based on the principle of lever and the principle that impulse equals momentum change, it is divided into two parts: axe and axe handle. The axe is made of metal, and its handle is made of wood. The shape of the blade is generally arc (sometimes linear) or flat. Cutting with an axe is the basic skill of traditional carpentry. "It takes three years to plan an axe." It is not easy to master an airplane. It is more difficult to use an axe than to use an airplane.

Axe is the best percussion tool for gouging mortises, much better than hammer. When the axe hits, its bottom area is much larger than that of the hammer, so it is not easy to knock it off and its weight is much heavier than that of the hammer. When trimming with an axe, when the wood texture is relatively straight, it can be cut in three or two times, which is much faster than a saw. Axes are also suitable for cutting wooden wedges. In the era without power tools, the axe is a sharp weapon for carpenters, and carpenters value their axes very much.

4. Mo Dou

Mo Dou is a very common tool in China's traditional woodworking industry. The ancients had the name of "setting rules and writing ink". The carpenters in Mo Dou are all made by themselves, and Mo Dou is often carved into peach, fish and dragon shapes, which is not only for self-entertainment, but also a demonstration of woodworking skills.

Mo Dou is mostly used for cutting wood. Mo Dou, a carpenter engaged in furniture making, can do a little less, and carpenters engaged in building wood structure making can do a little more. On the one hand, Mo Dou can be used as elastic thread for logs and sawn timber, or elastic thread for straightening the edges of boards, and it can also be used as elastic thread marking in other aspects, such as material splicing. For example, Mo Dou is sometimes used to hang a vertical line to measure whether the pay-off is vertical and flat.

5. Drill bit

The drilling rig consists of handle, drill pipe, pull rod and pull rope. There is a round hole in it, and the bamboo piece is connected with the drill pipe and can rotate freely for drilling. There are tow drills and bow drills commonly used, and bow drills are suitable for drilling larger holes. Both kinds of drill bits can change the drilling size by changing the drill bit.