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 ...

For Jim Cooper, part of the joy of woodworking is the tools themselves. While there is a place for machines and electric tools, his joy comes from a hand-held plane, file or drill. He has even made ...

For practical home improvement tasks like shaving down a wood door that’s sticking or for woodworking projects like smoothing the surface of a wavy board, no tool works quite as well as a hand plane.