Gouges are tools used to remove material from a surface, with different designs and applications. Hand gouges are used on softer materials, while industrial machines use them on wood, metal, and other materials. Gouges are also used for shaping and decoration in art. The term “gouge” is slang for a physical attack or overpriced item.
Gouges are a type of manufacturing tool used to remove material from a surface. While most gouges are hand tools that resemble chisels, some industrial machines use gouges as the first step in creating a final shape. The shape of a gouge has a big impact on its name and the final shape of the gouge it creates. The name of the instrument has been used as a slang term for many years.
The first gouges were tools for working with wood. These hand tools were often used to create the basic shape of a carved object before starting with finer tools. Ancient medicine also used these tools, mostly as a way to separate bone and connective tissue, usually after the subject was dead.
Modern gouges have different designs and applications. Industrial machines occasionally use gouges as a way to quickly remove material from a source object. This is often wood or some other soft material, but an industrial gouge can work on metal as well. To carve metal, the blade must be harder than the metal being worked. This generally means that metal gouges are made of some type of carbide.
Hand tool gouges look like chisels, except the ends are curved or bent. This contoured end allows a gouge to remove material from a source object in a very precise way. Because a hand gouge is human-powered, it is usually only used on softer materials.
Several names describe the function and appearance of gouges. If the gouge blade is outside the tool, the area touching the source object, is a channel gouge; an external channel gouge has the cutting surface inside the tool. This also speaks to their function: the internal notches work best for shaping the material and the external channel works best for material removal. Gouges with bent ends are called V’s and those with curved ends are called spoons.
People use gouges for a variety of reasons. Basic shaping of soft material is one of the most common. Additionally, gouges are used to create decorations on wooden objects ranging from violins to kitchen tables. Several art styles use gouging, including block art and linocut.
The history of “gouge” as a slang term involves its use to describe a type of physical attack in which an area of a body is pressed and pulled. This is called a gouge, because it is as if the attacker is attempting to remove area of his opponent’s body. Gouging is also a common way of saying something is overpriced, as it is as if money is being snatched away from the buyer.
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