Files & Planes

Files & Planes give you precise control over shaping, smoothing, and fitting parts across woodworking, metalworking, and DIY repair. With a good hand file or bench plane, you can flatten a surface, tune a joint, break a sharp edge, or remove burrs quietly and accurately, with immediate feedback from the tool.

Explore hand files for metal and wood: flat, half‑round, round (rat‑tail), triangular, and needle files for fine work. Choose cut and coarseness to match the task—bastard for fast stock removal, second‑cut for shaping, smooth for finishing. Single‑cut files leave a finer finish; double‑cut files remove material faster. Wood rasps and cabinet rasps excel at shaping curves in hardwood and softwood. Add a safe‑edge file for working up to a line without marring adjacent faces.

Woodworking planes bring machine‑quality surfaces to your bench. A block plane excels at end grain and chamfers. A smoothing plane refines surfaces before finish. A jack plane handles general flattening; a jointer plane straightens long edges. Specialty planes—shoulder, rabbet, and router planes—fine‑tune joinery for tight, repeatable fits. Look for flat soles, rigid bodies, and sharp, high‑carbon or PM‑V11 irons with solid chipbreakers and adjustable mouths to control tear‑out.

Practical tips: chalk a file to reduce clogging, clean with a file card, and apply pressure on the push stroke only. Always fit handles to file tangs for safety. For planes, hone frequently, set light cuts, use a tight mouth and close cap iron on tricky grain, and check your work with straightedges and winding sticks.

Whether you’re truing a door, deburring cut steel, tuning a tenon, or shaping a custom profile, this range covers file sets, wood rasps, metal files, bench planes, block planes, and replacement blades—everything you need for clean, accurate, craft‑level results. Shop by size, cut, length, and body material to suit your project.