61 Infill Style Planes: What are they?
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This article is from the Woodworking FAQ Collection 1, by multiple authors.
61 Infill Style Planes: What are they?
They are very precise planes made for precise finishing work.
Their construction consists of a shell made of sheets of mild
steel dovetailed together. Sheet metal is the "MDF" of the metal world,
the process relieves the internal stresses of cast metal, thus it moves
much less over time. (Cheaper ones were made of cast iron,
better ones of dovetailed gunmetal.) This shell is filled with a
hardwood such as beech, rosewood or even ebony. They are made
for final smoothing of surfaces (thus come as smoothers, panel
planes and jointers) and for final precise tweaking of joints
(thus mitre and shoulder planes). Ok, there are other kinds like
chariot, thumb, and rebate planes too.
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