Hand Planes
Discover how to shop for and tune up woodworking hand planes. From block planes to bench planes and specialty planes, you'll learn how to get the most out of these classic woodworking tools.
What tools does a beginning woodworker need, and how should he or she acquire them? From a poll of WOOD® magazine staff members, we assembled a basic tool kit.
For paring tenons and rabbets, nothing does the job better than one of these handy hand tools.
Over time, sharpening stones wear more in the middle than along the edges.
5 Tools every woodworker should own and use religiously.
With this easy-to-remember technique, you can put your chisels and plane irons back to work with scalpel-sharp cutters in mere minutes.
Maximize your efforts when hand-planing a board by focusing on efficient body mechanics.
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Poor-man’s centering rule
Next time you need to mark the center of a workpiece, slide the 0" ends of two steel rules together... read more