Planes type

There are five types of woodworking hand planes. They are made of iron and wood.

Scrub planes

A scrub plane is used to remove wood quickly. They are thinner and thinner and may often have thicker blades to avoid flexibility under pressure. Some woodworkers consider the scrub plane to be a kind of bench plane (see below). How everything design different from bench planes in several ways and the deeps, gouging cuts that it makes give it a reputation as an ‘aggressive’ tool, as opposed to the rhythmic approach associated with bench planes.

Bench planes

There are four types of bench plane:

Jack

Fore

Jointer

Smoothing

Respectively, these are for the reductions (cutting to sizes), initials straightening, final straightening and smoothing of woods. They are called bench planes because they are most often used at a woodworking bench as opposed to on-site.

The longest planes are used for straightening wooden and small planes are used for wood cleaning.
As with popular planes, there are woods equivalents which are generally simpler in their designs and construction.

Block planes

Block planes are smaller than popular other planes as they are designs to be held in one hand.

They can be employed in a variety of situations where it’s not convenient to places the workpieces in a vice or on a workbench.

it is planed.

Two of the main uses of the block plane are planing end grain and chamfering woods.

Specialised planes

The shapes made or trimmed with some specialised planes are for joint-making – joining two pieces of wood together by inserting part of one piece of wood into a recess that’s been cut into another.

Traditional Japanese planes

s, so that the woodworker can grasp the front parts of the body in the dominant hand, with the other hand around the iron and heel

Apart from this, and a slightly flatter body's profile, Japanese planes could be mistaken for the traditional wooden planes from anywhere, including the UK.

Materials

Another way of categorising planes is by the materials they are made from woods, metals or a combination of the two.

Metal planes

Metal planes are constructed entirely of metals, except for the handles, which are usually made of hardwoods. See

Wooden planes

The wooden plane's for usually made entirely of Wooden except for their irons, but in some cases, they have metal clamps to hold the blade, and metal mechanisms for adjusting the blade.

Transitional planes

Transitional planes are the halfway houses between wooden planes and advanced metal planes. One transitional plane has a wood body with a metal casting set into it and usually metals parts to hold and adjust the blades.

Infill planes

They were typical of English or Scottish manufacture and are prizes for their ability to smooth difficult-grained woods when set very finely.

Iron planes are in great use today. The wooden plane is rarely used