Taiwanese-Style Planes

These Taiwanese-style planes are comfortable to use either pushing or pulling. When pulled, the bevelled and curved upper front surface seats comfortably in the heel of your hand. When pushed, it is an equally comfortable configuration for applying downwards pressure.

Available in four sizes, these bench planes all have 3mm (0.118") thick solid HSS blades, held by steel wedges. Though not directly comparable to Western plane designations, they cover the range from a block plane to a jack. Each has the iron bedded at about 45°, and a mouth opening of about 0.5mm (0.020" to 0.025"). In testing, we were easily able to produce shavings less than 0.002" thick.

Note that all stated dimensions and angles are close, but approximate.