What kind of tool is a planer?

A planer is a woodworking tool used to straighten, thin, polish, and flatten surfaces. From the excavated artifacts, China had planes as late as the Song and Yuan dynasties. The use of planes led to the rapid advancement of furniture. The hardwood furniture of the late Ming Dynasty in China developed at a rapid pace and soon influenced the court. No other people in the world have made furniture from such hard wood, a value that sets the Chinese apart. Our hardwood is sinking into the water, specific weight, texture is very good, the luster are zitan kind of dark.

Used to planing, planing, planing straight, thinning wood a woodworking tool. Generally by the planing body (planing hall, groove), planing blade (also called planing edge), wedge wood and other parts. According to the length, shape and function of the planer body can be divided into long planer, medium planer, short planer, light planer (fine planer), curved planer, line planer, groove planer, seat planer, horizontal planer and so on.

Plane planer in the Roman period has been widely used in the Yuan Dynasty shipwrecks found in Heze, Shandong Province, was found in the modern style of the plane similar to that of the planer. The invention of the planer has a variety of claims, but due to the lack of specific historical basis for examination, it is impossible to prove that the planer is imported from abroad or before the Yuan Dynasty, China's forefathers invented the planer. But the ancient flat wood tools as early as the Tang Dynasty period already existed.