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Paul Sellers (born 1950) is a British woodworker, writer and teacher. He was apprenticed as a woodworker in the UK in 1965 at the age of 15. [ 1 ] He moved to the US in 1984 and quickly became noted for his ability in traditional woodworking .
A router plane is a hand plane used in woodworking for smoothing out sunken panels, and more generally for all depressions below the general surface of the pattern. [1] It planes the bottoms of recesses to a uniform depth and can work into corners that otherwise can only be reached with a chisel .
The rebate plane is one of a group of planes, including the shoulder plane, bullnose plane, and carriage makers plane, in which the blade protrudes by a very small amount—usually less than half a millimetre—from the sides of the plane body on both sides. It is a hand plane designed for cutting rebates/rabbets in wood. The blade is slightly ...
The primary usage of the hammer involves holding a nail between the index finger and the thumb and setting it using the cross-peen side. It has a multitude of other uses, such as correcting a bent nail or even using the head as a makeshift anvil.
Lofting is a drafting technique to generate curved lines. It is used in plans for streamlined objects such as aircraft and boats. The lines may be drawn on wood and the wood then cut for advanced woodworking.
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In 1981, Garrett Wade's supplier of an adapted Stanley #95 edge trimming block plane, Ken Wisner, was ready to leave the business, so Lie-Nielsen acquired the tooling, plans and components necessary for producing the #95. [3] Lie-Nielsen moved from New York to a farm in West Rockport, Maine, and began production of the plane in a tiny back-yard ...
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.