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2. Plane (tool) - Wikipedia

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   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 the thickness ...

3. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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   Hand powered cutting tools. Saw. Crosscut saws to cut timbers to length and in making joints. Japanese saws are special saws used in woodworking including timber framing. Axes were sometimes used to cut timbers to length and in joinery. Hatchet. Adzes are of many shapes and names. Framing Chisels are heavy duty.

4. Edward Preston & Sons - Wikipedia

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   It seems that Edward Preston Sr. (c. 1798–1883) was first listed as a plane -maker at 77 Lichfield Street in the Birmingham Directory of 1833, but later listings and advertisements assert that the business was started in 1825. [4] Preston is likewise recorded as a plane-maker living with his family in Lichfield Street in the 1841 census, at ...

5. Router (woodworking) - Wikipedia

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   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 cabinetry.

6. Stewart Spiers - Wikipedia

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   Stewart Spiers was a small but innovative firm of plane -makers in Scotland, founded first of all in Ayr in Ayrshire and continuing under the registered name of Stewart Speirs Ltd [sic] in Paisley, Renfrewshire, from c. 1933 until its demise in the mid to late 1930s. Like the Glasgow firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons, Spiers benefited hugely ...

7. Stanley Hand Tools - Wikipedia

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   Stanley is a well known brand of tools and has produced millions of hand planes, saws, rulers, try squares, chisels, screwdrivers, and many other types of tools for consumer and for industrial use. Their innovations include the Bailey plane, the Surform shaper, the PowerLock tape measure, the utility knife, and an unusual multitool known as the ...