Wood planes are interesting tools as essential as hammers, nails and saws to those who “fix” and “make” wooden objects. While the primary tasks of most planes are to smooth wooded surfaces and even ...

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If you’ve got a thickness planer (aka a wood planer) in your home woodworking shop, then there are four things you need to do to keep it running well. If you want to maintain top-notch performance ...

Thousands of handcrafted antique tools that a retired woodworking teacher spent decades collecting but never used are worth more than $35,000. Roy Turnage, 88, spent years adding to his haul that ...

Admittedly, we aren’t really in a position to confirm whether or not the miniature wood plane put together by [Daniel d’Entremont] is actually the smallest in the world, but we’re willing to take his ...

Wood planes, such as this vintage Stanley Bedrock model owned by Warren George of Metairie, are one of the most popular categories in tool collecting. THE PIECE: a vintage Stanley Bedrock planer, from ...

Here are the three best benchtop planers for your workshop, according to a lifelong woodworker and other industry pros. Whether you’re a newly minted woodworker or a seasoned pro, the best benchtop ...

I never actually computed my hours of flight time, but I know it was pretty substantial. In spring of years past, as the weather warmed up, boy, oh boy, did I ever put planes into the air. Remember ...

From the bowels of a big steel cylinder the men pulled a delicately curved, glass-smooth part of an airplane wing. Bushy-browed, six-foot-six John Carlton Ward Jr. stood by with a father’s mixture of ...