Arts & Culture: Collection Highlight - Wooden Hand Planes

Historic Richmond Town’s wide-ranging collection is home to hundreds of woodworking tools, including over 400 hand planes.These tools range from 3 inches to 3 feet long, and were used for everything from tuning musical instruments to making furniture to building ships and houses, including the ones that stand on our site today.

In this video, Historic Richmond Town’s woodworking expert Don DeFillo introduces wooden hand planes and demonstrates how they are used to shape, join, and decorate wood.

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