I recently installed a set of French doors in my apartment. Jams were plum, trim looked great. Everything was perfect—until I closed the doors. Where they met in the middle, they actually met. I could ...

Learn how to make gleaming surfaces, tight joints and crisp moldings. Learn how to make gleaming surfaces, tight joints and crisp moldings through perfect planing.

Japanese hand planes or kannas are remarkable tools that can shave off layers of wood so ridiculously thin that they look like tissue paper. The wood shaving in the GIF above is only 8 microns thick ...

In this video, the creator shares their favorite simple jig designed to improve hand planing accuracy and efficiency, offering insights into homemade woodworking aids. Army reveals the real cost of ...

Adam Kures a master’s student at Purdue is fascinated with woodworking. He manufactured a hand plane tool that is used for smoothening the surface of the wood. He used a vertical drill and belt sander ...

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Bodysurfing and hand-planing are making a huge resurgence. Especially when the surf conditions are kinda funky. Here in the UK, there’s always someone in the line-up with a hand-plane, and from that ...