bench plane

Blade-equipped woodworking tool

A bench plane is a woodworking hand tool used to flatten, smooth, and shape wood surfaces.

It consists of a sharp blade set in a flat-bottomed metal or wooden body, pushed across the workpiece to shave thin curls of material.

Various sizes exist for different tasks: jack planes for rough work, smoothing planes for finishing, jointer planes for flattening long boards.

He ran the bench plane along the edge until it was perfectly square.

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chisel · smoothing · iron · sole · flat surface · handtool · cabinet · carpenter · workshop · flatness · edge · cutting edge · grain · Stanley · frog · mouth · workbench · hardwood

Opposites
power vs. manual tool

bench planebelt sander

Motorized loop-abrasive tool

jointer · orbital sander · sander · drum sander · router

material addition vs. removal

bench planewood filler

Compound for repairing lumber

wood glue · putty knife · epoxy · veneer · laminate

smoothing vs. roughening

bench planerasp

Coarse shaping tool

wood rasp · adze · drawknife

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G