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  • verb Present participle of rabbet.

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Examples

  • In the days before power tools the most frequently used tool was a specialty bench plane called a rabbeting (or rebating) plane.

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  • You just destroyed one of your own basic tenants that your always rabbeting on about!

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  • Specific skills taught include rabbeting, edge jointing, finish preparation, using table saws, planers, and pneumatic nailers, veneering, and designing and constructing special jigs and templates.

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  • Specific skills taught include rabbeting, edge jointing, finish preparation, using table saws, planers, and pneumatic nailers, veneering, and designing and constructing special jigs and templates.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • The _universal plane_, Fig. 117, is a combination of various molding -, rabbeting -, matching - and other planes.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • The _dado-plane_ is much like the rabbeting-plane, except that it is provided with two spurs, one at each side of the cutting edge, to score the wood before cutting.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • -- 1870: THE METALLIC VERSION OF THE PLOW PLANE later produced by Stanley and Company was patented by [Charles] G. Miller as a tool readily "convertible into a grooving, rabbeting, or smoothing plane."

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  • The rabbets are cut out with a rabbeting-plane before mitering and assembling.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • A ledge and miter or lipped miter joint_, Fig. 268, is made by rabbeting and mitering the boards to be joined so that the outer portion of the two boards meet in a miter.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • The _rabbeting-_ or _rebating-plane_, Fig. 112, is designed for use in cutting out a rectangular recess, such as the rabbet on the back of the picture-frames.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

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