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2. Thickness planer - Wikipedia

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   Function. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Jack plane - Wikipedia

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   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 versatility of the jack plane has led to it being the most common bench plane in ...

5. Planing (shaping) - Wikipedia

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   Planing (shaping) Planing is a manufacturing process of material removal in which the workpiece reciprocates against a stationary cutting tool producing a plane or sculpted surface. Planing is analogous to shaping. The main difference between these two processes is that in shaping the tool reciprocates across the stationary workpiece.

6. Planer (metalworking) - Wikipedia

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   Planer (metalworking) A typical planer. A planer is a type of metalworking machine tool that uses linear relative motion between the workpiece and a single-point cutting tool to cut the work piece. [1] A planer is similar to a shaper, but larger, and with workpiece moving, whereas in a shaper the cutting tool moves.

7. Moulding plane - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known record of a moulding plane is a moulding plane iron of Roman origin unearthed in Cologne, Germany. [4]: 116. In modern industry, the work of the moulding plane has been taken up by the electrically powered spindle moulder or wood shaper. On a smaller scale, the hand-held or table-mounted electric router allows the use of ...