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A thickness planer is a woodworking machine to trim boards to a consistent thickness throughout their length and flat on both surfaces. It is different from a surface planer, or jointer, where the cutter head is set into the bed surface. A surface planer has slight advantages for producing the first flat surface and may be able to do so in a ...
Craftsman No. 5 jack plane A hand plane in use. A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools used for the same types of larger tasks, but are unsuitable for fine-scale planing, where a miniature hand plane is used.
For this task, after jointing one face, a thickness planer is used. Thickness planers and jointers are often combined into one machine, with the work piece passing underneath the same rotating blade for thicknessing, but in the opposite direction. In the US this is called a planer–thicknesser or over-and-under. [1]
The term planer may refer to several types of carpentry tools, woodworking machines or metalworking machine tools. Plane (tool), a hand tool used to produce flat surfaces by shaving the surface of the wood; Thickness planer (North America) or thicknesser (UK and Australia), a woodworking machine for making boards of even thickness
A jack plane is a general-purpose woodworking bench plane, used for dressing timber down to size in preparation for truing and/or edge jointing.It is usually the first plane used on rough stock, but for rougher work it can be preceded by the scrub plane. [1]
The smoothing plane is the shortest of the bench planes. [2] Under the Stanley Bailey numbering system for metal-bodied planes #1 to #4 are smoothing planes, with lengths ranging from 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (140 mm) to 10 inches (250 mm). [3]
Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England. It is 28 miles (45 km) from the county town of Exeter . The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth , and is in the East Devon local government district.
People who were born or raised in the town of Axminster, Devon, England. Pages in category "People from Axminster" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.