Hand planes
This page covers hand planes and related surfacing tools for wood and plasterboard: classic planes, plasterboard planes and forming tools. Use them when a surface needs hand control rather than a power planer.Electric pl…
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Cutting and sawing
Hand saws, knives, shears, pipe and wire cutters without a motor.
Hand saws
Panel, pad and plasterboard saws pulled by hand, not from a socket.
Files and rasps
This page covers hand files and rasps for metal and wood: flat, round, half-roun…
Knives and cutters
Site knives with a fixed or retractable blade — the tool, not the spare blades.
This page covers hand planes and related surfacing tools for wood and plasterboard: classic planes, plasterboard planes and forming tools. Use them when a surface needs hand control rather than a power planer.
Electric planers live under power routing and planing. Files and rasps sit on the neighbouring cutting page.
Choose width, blade type and the material you will plane.