jointer
Flattens wood surfaces
A jointer is a woodworking tool or machine that creates flat surfaces on boards, essential for making edges straight before joining pieces together.
The hand tool version is a long plane—the extra length helps produce truer surfaces.
The power tool version feeds wood across rotating blades to flatten one face or edge: Run that board through the jointer before you glue it up.
A jointer may also refer to a worker who makes or finishes joints, particularly in masonry.
Rotating blade-holding component
- infeedEntry point for material
- outfeedMachine's exit path
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- knivesEdged cutting instruments
benchtop · snipe · parallelism · calibration · workpiece · rabbeting · beds · tables
Reducing to evenness
- surfacingComing to the surface
- truingCorrecting to exact form
- squaringMaking perpendicular or equal
- shavingsThin strips removed
grain · passes · flatness · dimensioning · milling
Fitting wood pieces together
- woodshopWorkspace for building with lumber
- lumberSawn wood for building
- millworkFactory-made wooden components
- cabinetmakingCraft of building furniture
hardwood · softwood · workbench · furniture · dovetail · mortise · tenon · tabletops
Tradesperson laying mortared blocks
- tuckpointingRepairing masonry joints
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- pointingDirecting attention somewhere
- repointingRenewing mortar between bricks
cutterhead
Rotating blade-holding component
knives · benchtop · snipe · parallelism · calibration · workpiece · rabbeting · beds · tables · motor
flattening
Reducing to evenness
shavings · grain · passes · flatness · dimensioning · milling
joinery
Fitting wood pieces together
- woodshopWorkspace for building with lumber
- lumberSawn wood for building
- millworkFactory-made wooden components
cabinetmaking · hardwood · softwood · workbench · furniture · dovetail · mortise · tenon · tabletops
bricklayer
Tradesperson laying mortared blocks
- tuckpointingRepairing masonry joints
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- pointingDirecting attention somewhere
repointing · brickwork · stonework · striking · slicker
handplane
Tool for smoothing wood
mouth · blade · sharpening · honing
- woodworkingwoodworking, wood, saw, hammer, drill
- power toolscordless drill, table saw, miter saw, lathe, band saw
- concreteconcrete mixer, concrete pour, concrete slabs, concrete beams, concrete columns
- masonry toolstrowel, hawk, float, level, plumb bob
- plowingplow, plowshare, moldboard, furrow, coulter
- shaping toolschisel, file, rasp, plane, gouge
jointerplaner
Wood-smoothing machine
drum sander · shaper · router · lathe · carving tools
- joint painAche at skeletal junctures
- joint effortCombined work toward goal
- pizza jointCasual restaurant serving pies
- burger jointCasual ground-beef eatery
- nose out of jointIrritated by slight
- universal jointsRotational couplings permitting angulation
joint, joints, disjointed, disjoint, jointing, disjoints, jointers