Originally Posted by
Stanley Covington
Brian and I both use a special kind of wooden-bodied plane to plane thin stuff to a very precise thickness. I think he calls his an "airplane plane" or something like that, while I learned to call them "goroganna." They have precisely dimensioned skids mounted on the plane's sole that ride on the benchtop's surface to determine the final thickness, and a spring-loaded plate in front of the mouth that keeps the material from being pulled up from the workbench and/or buckling. They are quite effective at keeping the material from flexing or buckling, but need an effective stop to work in a production situation where one needs to thickness plane hundreds of such thin pieces.
Are we talking about the same sort of thing, Nicholas?