A spokeshave is a hand tool used to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making cart wheel spokes, chair legs, paddles, bows, and arrows. The tool consists of a blade fixed into the body of the tool, which has a handle for each hand. Historically, a spokeshave was made with a wooden body and metal cutting blade. With industrialization metal bodies displaced wood in mass-produced tools. Being a small tool, a spokeshave is not suited to working large surfaces.
Metal-handled spokeshaves, one with a flat sole and one with a rounded sole
Spokeshave components
A wooden spokeshave in use
Rounding square wooden stock
A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools used for the same types of larger tasks, but are unsuitable for fine-scale planing, where a miniature hand plane is used.
Craftsman No. 5 jack plane
A hand plane in use
Roman planes found in Germany, dating to the 1st to 3rd century AD
Hand planer