Edgy Tools

Fun Facts About Edgy Tools

• The adze is an ancient cutting tool with the blade set at a right angle to the handle. It was essential in building wooden ships when shipwrights shaped massive timbers by hand.
• Vikings were so skilled with axes that the weapon became a symbol of power, courage, and the warrior spirit, especially in Norse culture.
• A cleaver's broad, flat blade is highly versatile. It isn't just for cutting meat, but also useful for crushing garlic, ginger and other spices.
  
• Ancient Egyptians used copper chisels with wooden mallets to carve stones for the Great Pyramid of Giza over 4,500 years ago.
• Hacksaws are specialized hand tools with high-tension, fine-toothed blades, originally designed to cut metal, not wood. But they are also quite handy for cutting PVC pipe or plastic conduit.
• Hoes are among the oldest farming tools, with evidence of their use dating back 5,000–8,000 years. They were essential for early agricultural civilizations like Egypt and Mesopotamia.
  
• Modern pivoted scissors were invented by the Romans around 100 AD. Before that, people used spring scissors made from a single, flexible piece of metal for thousands of years, starting as early as 3000 BC.
• Historically, the curved sickle was a powerful agricultural symbol. It infamously appears on the flag of the former Soviet Union alongside a hammer.