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[ksmith]

Thanks to all for the wedge feedback. Now I'm wondering about wedge vs splitting wedge. My characters are trying to remove an old, but well-made, wooden lid from the cistern/well. They use the wedges and a sledgehammer to bust the hinges away. Not sure if that makes 100% sense, but while these people aren't clueless when it comes to tools, they aren't expert. In this case, the hinges were the weak spot.

Maul. What a nasty name. I wonder what came first, the noun or the verb...

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[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

I've personally used a chisel to open corroded hinges and to shear off large bolt heads because they had corroded so badly that they could not be loosened. The chisel makes jobs like that almost easy.

I'd vote for your characters having a chisel because I think if I ran across someone using a wedge for breaking open hinges it would throw me out of the story.