Making Tools

Toolmaking is known to be the action and process of making tools. For centuries, mankind has made tools for many different reasons. Such reasons included farming, combat, cooking, hunting, and making clothes. The person making the tools is known as a the toolmaker and this skill has always been known to be and will always be a form of art work. Over the years, mankind has found, discovered, and invented many ways to make tool making easier for the toolmaker (person making the tools). And even now, we have machines doing the most of the work for us.

Toolmaking began over 40,000 years ago, when a type of tool called Paleolithic was invented. The tools were known to be made from plant fiber and stone, until mankind invented more technologically advanced ways of making tools. Around the same time, a type of toolmaking called hafting was invented, where there was a fitting of a handle to the opposite end of the cutting part of the tool. Toward the end of this period, a type of tool called a spear-thrower was developed to help mankind hunt. This gave hunters an improvement to how far the tool would go. This type of tool was the first hafted implement to the spear.

Toolmaking is something that we will always need, and over the years mankind will find and discover new and improved ways to make the job easier. And even when new inventions arise, toolmakers all around the world will be there to rise to the job.