title: Planer
text: # Planer
  
  The term planer may refer to several types of carpentry tools, woodworking machines or metalworking machine tools.
  
  * Plane (tool), a hand tool used to produce flat surfaces by shaving the surface of the wood
  * Thickness planer (North America) or thicknesser (UK and Australia), a woodworking machine for making boards of even thickness
  * Planer (metalworking), a metalworking machine-tool having a reciprocating work table and a stationary cutting tool
  * Jointer (North America) or planer (UK and Australia), a woodworking machine for making flat surfaces and straight edges on boards
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Minna Planer (1809-1866) Saxonian actress
  * Franz Planer (1894-1963), cinematographer who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s
  * Nigel Planer (born 1953) English actor, comedian, novelist and playwright
  