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.

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re a woodworker, you know the value of a good hand plane. A stout model will last a lifetime if properly cared for. [Process X] has now taken us behind the scenes of a Japanese factory that ...

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 ...

If you are a craftsman looking for the smoothest finish to your piece, reveal the true beauty of your wood’s grain and figure by sanding, scraping or using handplanes. Woodworker’s Guide to Handplanes ...

Wood is hard. You know that. But if you were to shave it down into layers thinner than a single human hair, you'd see something that's barely there, something that looks more like skin and is soft ...

Admittedly, we aren’t really in a position to confirm whether or not the miniature wood plane put together by [Daniel d’Entremont] is actually the smallest in the world, but we’re willing to take his ...