Best Router Planes for Leveling Hinge Pockets and Inlays
A router plane is useful when the important surface is below the surrounding face: a...
Equipment
Best Shoulder Planes for Cleaning Up Tenons and Recesses
A shoulder plane cleans the vertical cheeks and square inside corners of a tenon or...
Best No. 5 Jack Planes for Squaring and Sizing Timber
What a No. 5 jack plane does A No. 5 is a medium-length bench plane,...
Best No. 4 Hand Planes for General Carpentry and Bench Work
A No. 4 smoothing plane is a useful first bench plane because it can flatten...
Best Jack Planes for Flattening Rough-Sawn Boards by Hand
A jack plane is the roughing tool in a hand-flattening setup: it removes high spots...
Best Smoothing Planes for Refining Cabinet Doors and Trim
A smoothing plane is useful for the last light cuts on a cabinet door, face...
Bench Plane vs Block Plane for Trimming Doors and Smoothing Edges
The short answer For trimming a door edge, a bench plane is usually the better...
Best Low-Angle Block Planes for End-Grain Trimming on Site
A low-angle block plane is useful on site because it fits in a tool belt,...
Compass Dividers vs Wing Dividers for Carpentry Layout
What the two dividers are for Compass dividers and wing dividers both transfer measurements and...
How to Use Dividers to Transfer Measurements Without a Tape
Dividers transfer a distance by carrying it from one place to another, rather than reading...