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This machine features a paper roll holding spindle with a cutting attachment. A paper cutter is a tool often found in offices and classrooms, designed to cut a large set of paper at once with a perfectly straight line.

Paper Holder and Cutter

This machine features a paper roll holding spindle with a cutting attachment. A paper cutter is a tool…

This pipe cutter features an adjustable chain, a type of tool used commonly by plumbers to cut pipe.

Pipe Cutter

This pipe cutter features an adjustable chain, a type of tool used commonly by plumbers to cut pipe.

One very useful knife has a long blade with a cutting edge on one side, and a handle at each end, placed a a right angle with the blade. Such a two-handled knife is called a draw knife, because it is used with both hands and is pulled or drawn forward in making a cut with a blade.

Draw Knife (Colonial Tool)

One very useful knife has a long blade with a cutting edge on one side, and a handle at each end, placed…

Some knives have the handle placed at a right angle with the blade. The farmer in cutting hay from the haymow in his bard uses a large knife with such a right angle handle and calls it a hay-knife.

Hay Knife

Some knives have the handle placed at a right angle with the blade. The farmer in cutting hay from the…

At first scissors seem to have been small, awkward things, with straight blades and handles. Now they are made in many different styles, shapes and sizes, and are adapted to a great variety or uses. Some have bent blades, others curved or bent handles, some are long, some very thick and short, some have rings for the fingers or thumb.

Manicure Scissors

At first scissors seem to have been small, awkward things, with straight blades and handles. Now they…

The florist and gardener use scissors with a curved blade for pruning, and a delicate pair for gathering flowers, and large shears, called pruning shears, for trimming hedge plants.

Pruning Shears

The florist and gardener use scissors with a curved blade for pruning, and a delicate pair for gathering…

The scalpel is a small and sharp knife used in surgery.

Scalpel

The scalpel is a small and sharp knife used in surgery.

"The cutting-tool in a screw-cutting machine; a screw-plate." -Whitney, 1911

Screw Cutting Die

"The cutting-tool in a screw-cutting machine; a screw-plate." -Whitney, 1911

A section of a screw-cutting die.

Screw Die Section

A section of a screw-cutting die.

Ordinary sheep-shears are not in any sense a pair of scissors. These simple shears have no pivot on which the blades turn.

Sheep-shearing Shears

Ordinary sheep-shears are not in any sense a pair of scissors. These simple shears have no pivot on…

A bench-shears is a tool with two short, stout blades and very long handles, one of them being fitted with a point to hold the shears firm on the bench.

Tinsmith's Shears

A bench-shears is a tool with two short, stout blades and very long handles, one of them being fitted…

A lathe tool attachment for cutting a pulley in two or create grooves. The arm with the spinning tool extends to the wheel while it is spinning.

Pulley Cutting Tool

A lathe tool attachment for cutting a pulley in two or create grooves. The arm with the spinning tool…