Wood chisels are a tool with a characteristically shaped

cutting edge of blade on its end, used for carving or cutting

grooves and slots, or to smooth small areas of wood. A
sharp wood chisel can cut mortises, shave rough surfaces,
chop out corners and scrape off glue.

Wood Chisel
 Hand planes are used to smooth surfaces of wood. Muscle
power is used to force the cutting blade over the wood
surface to flatten, reduce the thickness, and impart a
smooth surface to a rough piece of lumber or timber.

Hand Planes
 They are small and are generally 6 or 7 inches long which
can only be used with one hand. They are used to remove
material from the ends of a board (end grain). It typically has
the blade bedded at a lower angle than other planes, with
the bevel up.

Block Planes
 They are used for smoothing small surfaces and are usually 9
inches long. The plane is typically the last plane used on the
wood's surface and are used with both hands.

Smooth Planes
 Jack planes are all-purpose planes and are about 14 to 15
inches long. They are used for dressing timber down to the
correct size in preparation for edge jointing and are usually
the first plane used on rough stock. The cut is generally set
deeper than on most other planes as the plane's purpose is
to remove stock rather than to gain a good finish.

Jack Planes
 Jointer planes are used for working on large areas and are
22 to 24 inches long. It is a type of hand plane used
primarily to straighten the edges of boards in the operation
known as jointing and may also be used to flatten the face of
a board. Its long length is designed to 'ride over' the motions
of an uneven surface, skimming off the peaks, gradually
creating a flat surface.

Jointer Planes
 Routers are fast and accurate tools and are commonly used
for cutting decorative edges on wood and for cutting
dadoes, grooves, and rabbets when making wood joints.
This tool lets you select a “bit” which cuts into different
kinds of shape.

Routers
 Jointers are stationary (not movable) power tools that have
knives that rotate to plane the wood. They cut quickly and
accurately and are used to make the face of a warped,
twisted, or bowed board flat. After your boards are flat, then
the jointer can be used to straighten and square edges. It is
may be used to cut rabbets, tapers, and bevels on stock.

Jointers
 The Uniplane is a stationary power tool and is used in much
the same way as a jointer. The edges, ends, and faces of
boards can be smoothed by this tool and its maid advantage
is that it can smooth small surfaces and end grains. It used 8
small cutter (cutter bits) that rotates downward. It is very
useful for cutting bevels and chamfers on wood materials.

Uniplane
 Thickness planers are used to reduce the thickness of a
board and smooth its surface. A thickness planer planes one
side of a board at a time, giving a board of consistent
thickness and with smooth parallel surfaces on each side of
the board.

Thick Planner
 Wood lathes shape wood by attaching it to a spinning arm
and rotating it against various tools, specifically “lathe tools”
(turning chisels) which are used to cut or scrape wood to
produce various shapes, whether it be bowl, spindle, vase or
a variety of other useful and/or decorative wood items.

Wood Lathes
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VE TOOLS
 This woodworking hand tool is designed for curved work, such as
shaping chair seats and legs, wheel spokes, and even canoe
paddles.

Spokeshave
 A regular saw best for cutting in straight lines but don’t do well in
curves. But a jigsaw can do well in cutting curved and circular
designs on wood. 

Jigsaw
 A random orbital sander is used to apply finishing touches and
smoothen wood. Among wood power tools, it’s an easy to use tool
that makes basic woodwork look better. Orbital sanders use a hook-
and-loop system to fasten the sanding disks.

Random Orbital
Sander