jack plane

But this mild dissent (later retracted, it seems) doesn't make him a Paul Revere with a jack plane instead of a silver burnisher.

In preparing stock, the jack plane is used after the scrub plane and before the jointer plane and smoothing plane.

A jack plane is the general-purpose bench plane, used for general smoothing of the edges, sizing of wood and jointing edges.

In thicknessing or preparing rough stock, the scrub plane is usually followed by the jack plane, jointer plane, then smoothing plane.

At one time it was a part of the renowned Kelsey I. Newman Collection, and more recently the Jack Plane Collection.

Jack planes are about 12-15 inches long, and the blade can have either a slightly circled edge for smoothing stock, or a curved edge for jointing stock.

The name is related to the saying "jack of all trades" as jack planes can be made to perform some of the work of both smoothing and jointer planes, especially on smaller pieces of work.

"I don't see the need of usin' my knife to make that thing," Bandon said, watching Chester take long, curling shavings from a spruce spar with a jack plane made from a chunk of wood and the knife blade.

To that, were I competing, I would add a one-inch wood chisel, a block plane, a jack plane, a drawknife, a small reciprocating saw, and an eight-foot length of half-inch by half-inch clear pine for fairing in any curves I might plan to incorporate into my design.