Type: Block. Length ... For the sake of simplicity, let’s break down hand planes into five categories: Made of wood or metal ...

Unlike basic hand planes, the type most often used for precise wood removal, such as planing a door, electric hand planers have high-speed cylindrical blades that lop off tiny chunks of wood.

This is proper blacksmithing, with autohammers and flames akimbo. It’s also a woodworking story, though, with the hand plane bodies themselves carefully prepared for the years of faithful ...