It’s also a woodworking story, though, with the hand plane bodies themselves carefully prepared for the years of faithful service ahead. We get to see the raw wood roughed into shape and put ...

For the sake of simplicity, let’s break down hand planes into five categories: Made of wood or metal with a flat base, hand ...

Smoothing wood can be done with planes or a card scraper ... advise users to pay extra special attention to their chisels, hand planes and saws by sharpening or oiling them regularly.