For practical home improvement tasks like shaving down a wood door that’s sticking or for woodworking projects like smoothing the surface of a wavy board, no tool works quite as well as a hand plane.

Hand planes often fall into the category of essential woodworking tools under $100. They come in a variety of designs, shapes, and sizes, with the popular versions divided loosely into bench planes ...

If you’re a woodworker, you know the value of a good hand plane. A stout model will last a lifetime if properly cared for. [Process X] has now taken us behind the scenes of a Japanese factory that ...