Double planer
The double plane is a hand plane for machining workpieces made of wood.
With the double planer, surfaces planed with roughing and finishing planes are cleaned and cut to size, as well as smaller workpieces, for which the robbery bench is too large, are leveled, provided with angular edges and joined. Further processing is carried out by cleaning with a planer or scraper and by grinding.
construction
As with other planes, the plane body is usually made of red beech with a plane sole made of hornbeam , with better versions of pockwood . The plane iron is at a cutting angle of 45 degrees and has a flap, also known as a chip breaker. This "breaks" the removed chip about one millimeter behind the cutting edge and thus prevents tearing in the area created in front of the cutting edge. The double plane can also be used to work against the grain.
Use in production
The double planer is still used frequently, but only rarely for planing wooden boards. It is still part of the standard equipment of every carpenter on the assembly line, but often in a version with a metal body and exchangeable knives. For example, it is used in building joinery instead of a sanding block to “break” cut edges.
- Double planer with metal sole for construction sites
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Nutsch and others: Expertise for carpenters 12th edition, Europa-Lehrmittel, Wuppertal 1980, ISBN 3-8085-4011-7 , page 240.
- ^ North German Carpenter Guild Association (ed.), Alfred Georgi: Book of the carpenter. Deutscher Handwerksverlag, Hanover 1929, page 49.