Jack plane
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A jack plane is a general-purpose woodworking bench plane, used for dressing timber down to size in preparation for truing and/or edge jointing. It is usually the first plane used on rough stock, but
A Garrett Wade Paragon #5 jack plane
Two carpenters using a jack plane. Wood shavings are visible in the foreground.
Wooden jack plane from c.1860
Jointer plane
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The jointer plane, also known as the try plane or trying plane, is a type of hand plane used in woodworking to straighten the edges of boards in the process known as jointing, and to flatten the faces
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…plane has also become associated with the related term "jack of all trades" as they can be adjusted to perform some of the work of both smoothing and jointer planes, especially on smaller pieces of work. As with other bench planes, until the end of the 19th century the bodies of jack planes were predominantly wooden…
A Stanley #7 jointer plane
Large Wood Trying Plane