Foster, Edwin W · Boston : Ginn and Company · leaf 42
riking the nail head after MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS AND METHODS OF WORK 33 it has become even with the surface, as this produces adepression and ruins any fine surface. If it is desirable to sink the nail head below the surface,a nail punch, or set, is used. This is always necessarywhen the suiface is… … Hammer. It is used in certain kindsof heavy chiseling, such as houseframing, and gives a blow which does not shatter thetool handle as a hammer would. The use of the mallet is well illustrated by the mak-ing of a mortise-and-tenon joint, the chisel and malletbeing used to cut the opening known as…
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