trying plane

British

noun

Also: try plane. a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards

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The jack plane is followed by the fore plane, the truing, or trying plane, which varies in size from about 18 inches long with a blade 21⁄8 inches wide, to 20 inches long with a cutter or blade 23⁄8 inches wide.

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This I do with a twenty-two inch trying plane, and having done it to my mind, I take cork rubber, as shown on illustration of tools used by me, No. 67, and rough sand paper, No. 2½, maker's number, and proceed to scour it level—smoothness is not essential.

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