Equipment

A router plane is useful when the important surface is below the surrounding face: a hinge leaf, an inlay, a […]

A shoulder plane cleans the vertical cheeks and square inside corners of a tenon or recess after sawing and chopping.

What a No. 5 jack plane does A No. 5 is a medium-length bench plane, usually about 14 inches long

A No. 4 smoothing plane is a useful first bench plane because it can flatten small high spots, refine a

A jack plane is the roughing tool in a hand-flattening setup: it removes high spots quickly and gets a board

A smoothing plane is useful for the last light cuts on a cabinet door, face frame or length of trim:

The short answer For trimming a door edge, a bench plane is usually the better choice: its longer sole helps

A low-angle block plane is useful on site because it fits in a tool belt, sets up quickly and can

What the two dividers are for Compass dividers and wing dividers both transfer measurements and mark arcs, but they hold

Dividers transfer a distance by carrying it from one place to another, rather than reading it as a number. That