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Experience the Life
: Tools
: Planes
Planes are chisel-like blades mounted in stocks or
bodies. They assist the worker by holding the blade at the correct angle, by
regulating the cutting depth, and sometimes by positioning the cut on the wood.
Bench planes were used to plane wood to the desired thickness
and to make it straight and smooth. They could be used on either
the wood's broad surfaces or its edges.
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Molding planes were made in a great variety of shapes. Hollows
and rounds were versatile planes used to cut simple round and
hollow shapes, which could be combined to make more complicated
moldings. Other moldings planes cut only one design. Since a
different plane was required for each shape and size molding,
woodworkers often owned other planes or large numbers of these
planes.
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Joining Planes
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Rabbet planes cut simple steps for lapped joints or wide grooves
to receive another piece of wood.
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Fillister planes were rabbet planes with built-in guides that
determined the width and depth of the step.
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Pairs of tongue-and-groove planes cut matching grooves and tongues
on the edges of boards so that they could be joined.
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Plow planes cut grooves, frequently to receive panels. They could
be adjusted to cut grooves of different widths, depths, and distances
from the board edge.
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Coopers' crozes cut the groove
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Historic Triangle