Wood planes are interesting tools as essential as hammers, nails and saws to those who “fix” and “make” wooden objects. While the primary tasks of most planes are to smooth wooded surfaces and even ...

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Of all the tools you use to shape wood, the hand plane is the one that has come to symbolize craftsmanship of the highest order. And it's no surprise. Here's a cutting tool that's designed to create ...

If you are a craftsman looking for the smoothest finish to your piece, reveal the true beauty of your wood’s grain and figure by sanding, scraping or using handplanes. Woodworker’s Guide to Handplanes ...

Adam Kures a master’s student at Purdue is fascinated with woodworking. He manufactured a hand plane tool that is used for smoothening the surface of the wood. He used a vertical drill and belt sander ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This tongue plane can cut interlocking wood joints, also known as tongue and groove, for making flooring and furniture ...

Japanese hand planes or kannas are remarkable tools that can shave off layers of wood so ridiculously thin that they look like tissue paper. The wood shaving in the GIF above is only 8 microns thick ...

Wood is hard. You know that. But if you were to shave it down into layers thinner than a single human hair, you'd see something that's barely there, something that looks more like skin and is soft ...

The art of riding waves has always been an evolutionary process. Whether you were an Inca in Peru riding the reed craft known as Caballitos de Totora, or an ancient Hawaiian on a 15-foot, koa wood olo ...