What is a flush plane?
What is a flush plane?
Description. The Veritas Flush Plane is ideal for flush trimming projections such as glue lines, laminate edges, and plugs. It can also be used for cleaning out inside corners (e.g., hinge gains, tenons, half-laps). It is as handy on the job site as it is in the shop.
What is a trimming plane used for?
It excels at making paring cuts in places where a chisel would be awkward or impossible to use, making short work of cleaning up corners and joints inside carcasses. Because the blade can be set level with the sole, you can also trim plugs or small inlays flush without marring the surrounding wood.
What is a jack plane used for?
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 for rougher work it can be preceded by the scrub plane.
What is a smoothing plane used for?
Smoothing planes are used for the finest finishing work on the wood surface. Before sandpaper was in common use, surfaces such as veneers were not sanded down, but “smoothed” with the smoothing plane. It was essential to set the iron with extreme precision, and to work with the highest degree of skill.
What is the difference between a shoulder plane and a rabbet plane?
The distinction between a shoulder and a rabbet plane is a bit blurry. Like a shoulder plane, a rabbet plane is set up to cut edge-to-edge. The difference is that a rabbet plane is designed specifically to cut rabbets – often having a fence, depth stop, and scoring nickers for making cuts across the grain.
What is a No 5 plane used for?
Bench or ‘Jack’ planes have a long base and are used for the initial preparation of rough timber. Made with a quality grey cast iron body for strength and stability with precision ground base and sides for flatness and squareness.
