page_title: Plane (tool)
section_title: Order of use
hierarchical_section_title: Plane (tool) / Types / Order of use
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Stanley No. 32 "transitional" jointer plane (26 inches long) taken 16 October 2005 by Luigi Zanasi (myself) on my workbench using a Olympus digital camera.Français&#160;: Varlope "transitionnelle" Stanley No. 32 (26 pouces de long &#8212; 66mm).
context_page_description: 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.
  Generally all planes are used to flatten, reduce the thickness of, and impart a smooth surface to a rough piece of lumber or timber. Planing is also used to produce horizontal, vertical, or inclined flat surfaces on workpieces usually too large for shaping, where the integrity of the whole requires the same smooth surface. Special types of planes are designed to cut joints or decorative mouldings.
  Hand planes are generally the combination of a cutting edge, such as a sharpened metal plate, attached to a firm body, that when moved over a wood surface, take up relatively uniform shavings, by nature of the body riding on the 'high spots' in the wood, and also by providing a relatively constant angle to the cutting edge, render the planed surface very smooth. A cutter which extends below the bottom surface, or sole, of the plane slices off shavings of wood.
context_section_description: A typical order of use in flattening, truing, and smoothing a rough sawn board might be:
  A scrub plane, which removes large amounts of wood quickly, is typically around 9 inches (230 mm) long, but narrower than a smoothing plane, has an iron with a convex cutting edge, and has a wider mouth opening to accommodate the ejection of thicker shavings/chips.
  A jack plane is up to 14 inches (360 mm) long, continues the job of roughing out, but with more accuracy and flattening capability than the scrub.
  A jointer plane (including the smaller 14 to 20 inches (360 to 510 mm) fore plane) is between 22 to 30 inches (560 to 760 mm) long, and is used for jointing and final flattening out of boards.
  A smoothing plane, up to 10 inches (250 mm) long, is used to begin preparing the surface for finishing.
  A polishing plane (kanna) is a traditional Japanese plane designed to take a smaller shaving than a Western smoothing plane to create an extremely smooth surface. Polishing planes are the same length as western smoothing planes, and unlike Western planes, which are pushed across a board, is pulled with both hands towards the user.
caption: Stanley No. 32 transitional jointer plane (26 inches long)
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