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2. Plane (tool) - Wikipedia

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   Plane (tool) 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. Generally, all planes are used to flatten, reduce ...

3. Router (woodworking) - Wikipedia

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   Router (woodworking) A "D-handle" fixed-base router. The router[a] is a power tool with a flat base and a rotating blade extending past the base. The spindle may be driven by an electric motor or by a pneumatic motor. It routs (hollows out) an area in hard material, such as wood or plastic. Routers are used most often in woodworking, especially ...

4. Lazy Susan - Wikipedia

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   A lazy Susan is a turntable (rotating tray) placed on a table or countertop to aid in distributing food. Lazy Susans may be made from a variety of materials but are usually glass, wood, or plastic. They are circular and placed in the centre of a table to share dishes easily among diners. Owing to the nature of Chinese cuisine, especially dim ...

5. Woodturning - Wikipedia

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   Bowl turning. Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. The operator is known as a turner, and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery.

6. Jointer - Wikipedia

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   A jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer, and sometimes also as a buzzer or flat top) is a woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length. As a jointer, the machine operates on the narrow edge of boards, preparing them for use as butt joint ...

7. Railway turntable - Wikipedia

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   A small turntable at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California, US. This type of turntable with the central tower and supporting cables is called a "gallows turntable". A larger turntable with several exits, 1909. In engine maintenance facilities, a turntable was usually surrounded, in part or in whole, by a building known as a ...