To smooth the surface of rough wood
A tool used for smoothing rough-cut wood in hand woodworking...
Rough shaping of wood. It removes a fair amount of material with each stroke, but leaves a coarse surface.
The plane is a tool with a long straight base and an angled blade in the centre. It cuts thin layers off the wood.
Rough wood I am told.
This is simply because wood is a natural substance and birds are used to wood. After all, you wouldn't want to have your house made of plastic.
I like to use a rasp to smooth the wood after I chisel a rough form.
If the wood is VERY rough, maybe, but usually no.
Hickory wood is a hard wood and when split the wood has a whitish look and is very rough.
A smoothing plane is used to level or smooth rough wooden surfaces. Function is variable; however, it was designed to be used with wood. It can be used, for example, to smooth and level a rough-cut surface; or to consistently remove thicknesses from the exterior of a piece of wood. It is much more efficient than beginning to smooth a surface with extra-coarse sandpaper.
The bulk work was done with an adze, then a draw shave was used to finish the rough out
Leonard Wood