BENCH PLANES (Most commonly found on carpenters benches)
Smooth Plane: commonly called a Coffin. Common Size 6 ½ “ to 9 “
Smooth Plane, coffin, with a front knob.
Smoothing Plane, coffin, with Handle and front Strike Button. Handles add an additional 1 ½” to the overall length of the plane
Adjustable Compass Plane a curved sole for concave surfaces
German Smooth Plane or Horned Plane
Transitional Smooth Plane by Stanley-Bailey
Transitional Handled Smooth Plane by Stanley-Bailey.
Smooth Plane, square.
Transitional Handled Jack Plane by Stanley-Bailey
Jack Plane with front knob
Jointer Plane Sizes from 22” to 30” Jointers over 32” were called Floor Planes
Jack Plane (most common 16”)Sizes from 14” to 18”
SURFACE PLANES
Badger Plane (large rabbet) Skewed Iron (Mathieson)
Panel Raiser with adjustable fence(nicker missing)
RABBET PLANES
Rabbets (sizes range ½” to 2-½”)
(left side) Snipe Bill (Rt. Side) Pair of side Rabbets
16” Jack Rabbet (nickers missing) With offset tote
Moving filletster
GROOVING PLANES
Tongue & Groove (Board match planes) Sizes range ½” to 5/4”
Tongue & Groove (handled)
Double Match (come & go) (Mathieson)
Drawer Plane (left handed grooving plane)
Grooving Plane (with adjustable fence)
Tongue Plane (with adjustable fence)
GROOVING PLANES: continued
Plank match pair (tongue & groove) ( commonly measuring 16” in length and working boards up to 1 ½ “ )
Wedge-arm match pair
Plow Plane (Friction fit)
Plow Plane (Wedge-arm)
Plow Plane (screw-lock slide-arm) Birch body and wood arm-locks Metal depth stop with brass thumb screws (Lindenberger )
Plow Plane (Wedge-arm) Removable front and rear skate Removable round fence (Coachmaker’s plow)
GROOVING PLANES: continued
Plow Plane (screw-lock slide-arm) Beech body and wood arm-locks and stop
Plow Plane (Bridle Plow)
Screw-adjusted slide arm with an interior screw in arms
Handled Screw-arm plow Adjusted Mahogany body with boxwood arms and nuts
Handled Screw-arm plow Scale on the fence shows distance
Handled Bridle Plow (Ebony arms)Mathieson (United Kingdom) for the groove
GROOVING PLANES: continued
Dado (Cross-grain groove)
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SASH PLANES
Left: Diamond pad self-regulating
Rt.: Screw-arm adjustable sash
Sash coping plane
Sash Filletster Heel + Toe Screw-lock
Continental, Sash Filletster Screw-arm
DECORATIVE MOLDING PLANES: brief examples
Left pair: hollow and round
Second: casing molding
Third: center bead
Fourth: side bead
Left: quirk ogee
Second: quirk ogee
Third: ogee with bead
Left: Double iron nosing plane
Right: Single iron nosing plane
The pictures above are a small sample of wooden planes. This is only intended to be a brief lesson in types.
For an in-depth study of planes go to The Wooden Plane: Its History, Form and Function by John M. Whelan
