Hand Planes - Page 3 of 11

You can use a smoothing plane for more than just smoothing.

Vic Tesolin weighs in on the never-ending debate about the 'proper' way to put your plane to rest.

Bob Van Dyke demonstrates how to properly use a shoulder plane: checking for square, honing the blade, inserting and adjusting the blade, and using the plane to adjust tenons, clean up rabbets, and refine moldings, among other tasks.

Use two decades of tool tests to compile your hand-tool kit, and you won't go wrong.

Don't let gnarly grain stand in your way. Gary Rogowski outlines his strategies for handplaning woods that are prone to tearout.

Gary Rogowski helps you understand every woodworker's enemy, tearout.

A toothed stop stabilizes awkward work, while a flat bar on the other side makes changing and repositioning boards easier.

Chris Gochnour tested four of Rockler's new high-end handplanes–a No. 4 smoothing plane, a low-angle jack plane, a block plane, and a three-in-one shoulder plane.

Learning to use a Japanese plane takes time and dedication, but as Andrew Hunter demonstrates, the reward of the shimmering surface it leaves is well worth it.

For hundreds of years, hand planes have remained largely unchanged. John Economaki of Bridge City Tool Works has done something about that