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2. Thickness planer - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Plane (tool) - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Snipe (wood machining) - Wikipedia

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   If the thickness planer is of a suitable design, movement of the planer table due to feed roller pressure can be recorded using a dial indicator. The pattern of movement can be analyzed to verify that the cause of snipe is properly understood. The photograph at right shows such an arrangement using a small combination jointer/planer.

5. Jointer - Wikipedia

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   The use of this term probably arises from the name of a type of hand plane, the jointer plane, which is also used primarily for this purpose. "Planer" is the normal term in the UK and Australia for what is called a "jointer" in North America, where the former term refers exclusively to a thickness planer.

6. Woodworking - Wikipedia

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   Thickness planer A thickness planer is used to smooth the surface of a board and make it the exact thickness across the entire board. [20] Jointer Powermatic jointer for woodworking. A jointer is used to produce a flat surface along a board's length and to create a square (or 90°) edge between two adjoining surfaces. [20] Band saw Plug-in band ...

7. Planer - Wikipedia

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   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

8. Scrub plane - Wikipedia

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   The scrub plane is a type of plane [1] used to remove large amounts of wood from the surface of lumber, such as when eliminating cup or twist in the first stages of preparing rough stock, or when reducing the thickness of a board significantly. Scrub planes generally have a short sole, a relatively narrow but thick blade, a very wide mouth, and ...

9. Planing mill - Wikipedia

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   A planing mill is a facility that takes cut and seasoned boards from a sawmill and turns them into finished dimensional lumber. [1] Machines used in the mill include the planer and matcher, the molding machines, and varieties of saws. [1]