This is proper blacksmithing, with autohammers and flames akimbo. It’s also a woodworking story, though, with the hand plane bodies themselves carefully prepared for the years of faithful ...

You dont need industrial-sized machinery to plane large pieces of wood. A full-size router with a 1/2-in. collet, a large-diameter bit and a simple jig will do the trick. The process will take a ...

Romano-British woodworking plane, found in excavations at Goodmanham, East Yorkshire in 2000. The object is unique in that the body of the plane is made of elephant ivory (the rest is of iron).