The shoulder plane is a plane with a blade flush with its edges, allowing trimming right up to the edge of a workpiece; like a rebate plane, its blade extends and cuts to the full width of the tool. It is used to trim the shoulders and faces of tenons, to trim into the concave corner where two perpendicular surfaces of the same piece of wood meet, and to clean up dadoes, or housings, and tenons for joinery.
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Introduced When (Circa)Source describes an unnamed craftsman developing the design around the 1850s, not a precise invention date Introduced era (class) Connections
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Shoulder Plane is used in Woodworking.
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1. Shoulder plane (Wikipedia)
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The shoulder plane (also bullnose plane) is a plane tool with a blade flush with the edges of the plane, allowing trimming right up to the edge of a workpiece.
2. On The Early History of Shoulder Planes (Tools for Working Wood)
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Around the 1850's somebody figured out that if you take the rebate design and round it out and cut into it you have a much better shape for fine dexterous work like trimming shoulders.
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