the.com/jointer plane
The longest hand plane, built to make warped boards lie about their past.
means A long-soled hand plane (typically 22–24 inches) used to flatten and straighten the edges and faces of boards, especially for joining them into a flat panel.
from The name is plainly functional: it's the plane used for making a 'joint' — the straight, true edge where two boards meet. 'Plane' itself comes from Latin 'planus' (flat, level), via French. Traditional plane names like jointer, jack, and smoothing plane describe the tool's job rather than any inventor or place, and the jointer's great length is itself the mechanism — a long sole rides over the high spots of a board and ignores the low ones, which is how it forces a warped edge to tell a straighter story.
- length
- typically 22 to 24 inches long
- job
- flattens edges for seamless glue joints
- physics edge
- long sole bridges humps, ignores dips
- nickname
- called a try plane historically