For practical home improvement tasks like shaving down a wood door that’s sticking or for woodworking projects like smoothing ...

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 ...

Block planes are invaluable when it comes to smoothing and trimming wood surfaces, and unlike their larger cousins—bench planes—are small enough to be used one-handed. This makes them not only useful ...

This is a European style smooth plane with a mismatched Butcher double iron. The bottom was re-soled with a new slab of hardwood and the tips of the horn and right cheek are chipped away. There is no ...

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