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Summary: Learn how to use a hand held power planer tool and various types of wood planes from a power tools expert in this free DIY video clip.

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Robert J. McMahon Robert J. McMahon is a master carpenter with over 20 years of experience. He has worked on many restoration projects of old, period homes in the Philadelphia ... read more

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by remccoy

has anyone got any useful tips from this video? I dont think so... These are not proper techniques

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Types of Wood Planes

Rob McMahon with Expert Village. I have tear out problems like that. There are perhaps a hundred different types of planes that have been used over the century. The block plane, the basic plane, jack plane which is a much longer sled. There is a radius plane that has a table that actually flexes and then there is a rabbit plane where the blade will come right up to the edge of the shoe. As you can see here, it is a good quarter inch in from the side. A rabbit plane would be flush with that edge so that you can cut directly up to an edge and make a rabbit in a board. Now the power plane doesn’t replace all those tools but replaces a lot of them. Here we’ve got the blade right along the edge so you can make a rabbit if you choose to. You can run it across and make a straight surface.

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