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• This is a block plane for your foot. It shaves off calluses just as a block plane shaves wood.

• Despite all the dismissive things I have to say about block planes, this particular variety is actually very useful. Its job is to quickly round over the sharp edge of a board to give it a pleasing, splinter-free feel. Very little wood is removed, but the result is a dramatic improvement in feel. You could use a router, file, or sandpaper, but this tool is quick, effective, and gives a very consistent result.

• This block plane is for slicing truffles.

• A jointer is a large, upside down power plane. Instead of moving it along the board, you move the board over the jointer. This is a small home model: large industrial jointers have tables that extend 10-12 feet (3m) on both sides, allowing them to take completely irregular boards and straighten one edge in just a few passes. Jointers are used only on the narrow edge of a board.

• Truffle Shaver

• Large Wooden Block Plane

• Wooden Block Plane

• Steel Block Plane

• Some block planes, both old and new, are made of steel. You adjust the blade to stick just a tiny bit beyond the bottom of the sole, then push the plane along a workpiece to slice off anything that’s sticking above the surface average level of the surface.

• Wooden Block Plane

• Block Plane

• Block Plane

• Wood Plane

• Wooden Block Plane

• A thickness planter is a power plane with a flat table underneath it. You run boards through it multiple times, flipping them over each time and decreasing the space between blades and table a small amount each time. This is the planer I used on nearly all my woodworking projects. It’s a mid-range model made significantly more useful by a set of very expensive solid carbide planer knives.

• Block Plane

• Block Plane

• There are a lot of different special-purpose planes for making dados, mortises, and profiles.

• If you need to take off quite a lot of material from the edge of a board—for example shaving 1/8 inch (3mm) from the bottom of a door that is dragging along the floor—a power plane is an excellent alternative to a block plane. The spinning knives cleanly slice off any amount you like (determined by the knob on top that adjusts the offset between the front and back sole plates).

• Wooden block planes work pretty much the same way as metal ones. They can get pretty big. The longer the sole, the more accurately flat a piece of wood can be made.

• Block Plane

• This fancier metal chamfer/radius plane does the same edge-rounding job as the wood one on the left, but has a more precise adjusting mechanism and interchangeable knives.

• Wooden Chamfer Plane

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