Each EZ-Edge comes with a wall-mountable Rack-It™ for convenient storage. Changing the look of your piece is as simple as grabbing the next EZ-Edge off its Rack-It™. Each profile is available individually. Get just the ones you want, or save money and be ready to create the unique look you want for each of your creations with the complete set.  Replacement cutters are available, too, so you can always have one sharp and ready to go. All the profiles fit the same body, so you can share one body with multiple cutters, if you choose.

In 1848, Norway became the first large-scale nickel smelting site. Here they used a type of nickel ore known as pyrrhotite. In 1883, large deposits of nickel were discovered in the Sudbury Basin in Canada, which is where about 30 percent of the world's nickel is mined today. It is believed that this large deposit of nickel is due to an ancient meteor impact. More nickel was discovered in Russia and South Africa in the early 1900s, further allowing nickel to take a strong place in industry.

Since nickel is such a sturdy and corrosion-resistant material, it is an excellent metal for coin-making. The first coin to include the metal nickel was the one-cent piece Flying Eagle, an American coin made of 12 percent nickel and 88 percent copper. This coin, which was also the first to go by the name "nickel," only circulated two years, between 1857-1858.

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Like all Woodpeckers products, the EZ-Edge Corner Planes are precisely machined and carefully inspected in our Strongsville, Ohio factory (just south of Cleveland).

Nickel is a hard, silvery-white metal whose strength, ductility and resistance to heat and corrosion make it extremely useful for the development of a wide variety of materials — from wires to coins to military equipment.

Crisp, clean edges from your saws and planers make your joinery come together professionally. But those sharp edges detract from the look and feel of your finished piece. They’re also vulnerable to damage and can be sharp enough to cut. That’s why experienced furniture and cabinetmakers soften the exposed edges of their work with a chamfer or radius. Woodpeckers EZ-Edge Corner Planes make quick work of edge relief without changing bits in your router or plugging in anything. Just a few quick strokes with one of the four planes and you have either 1/8", 3/16" or 1/4" radius or 45° chamfer.

This extremely useful metal is No. 28 in the periodic table of the elements, between the elements cobalt and copper. Nickel is a fairly good conductor of electricity and heat and is one of only four elements (cobalt, iron, nickel and gadolinium) that are ferromagnetic (magnetized easily) at room temperature. Nickel is a transition metal, meaning it has valence electrons in two shells instead of one, allowing it to form several different oxidation states.

The vee-shaped sole of the EZ-Edge is a perfect 90°. When you rest it on the corner of your stock it centers the cutter right on the edge. The thumbwheel adjustment for the depth of cut falls conveniently under your thumb, just dial it in and watch the whisper thin shaving curl out of the plane as you glide along the board’s edge.

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About a century later, in 1751, the Swedish alchemist Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt tried heating kupfernickel with charcoal and found that its various properties — such as being white and magnetic — clearly revealed that it wasn't copper. Cronstedt is credited as the first person to extract nickel and isolate it as a new element. He dropped the name "kupfer" and called the new element nickel.

EZ-Edge Corner Planes can be adjusted for the most subtle cuts possible or take a few more passes to create more dramatic profiles. You have absolute control over the appearance of the cut (unlike softening an edge with a block plane). Each pass you take enlarges the bevel or radius an equal amount on both the face and edge…it’s always perfectly centered. Each pass is limited, too. You have to physically make a depth of cut adjustment for every cut you take. Your profiles will never appear heavier at one end of your piece than the other or randomly change angle in the middle.

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The EZ-Edge cutters are machined from 01 tool steel for the ultimate in sharpness, hardened, and then precision ground and polished. They hold their edge remarkably well, even in tough material, but when they do need re-sharpening, it’s as simple as honing the flat side on any honing stone.

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Nickel is an essential element for healthy plant life, and trace amounts are naturally found in most vegetables, fruits, nuts and in slightly greater amounts in chocolate and wine, according to the Nickel Institute.

In 2012, 25 nickel-plating workers in Egypt were given liver function tests. The results overwhelmingly showed poor liver function among the nickel workers compared to the control group. Another study in Saudi Arabia also exposed the toxic effects of nickel exposure on the lungs and airway, but the researchers also discovered an interesting fact: ingesting dietary curcumin, the active ingredient in the spice turmeric, was linked to a significant reduction in toxicity and oxidative stress.

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Nickel is one of only four metals that are ferromagnetic, meaning they are attracted to magnets and are magnetic themselves. The others are iron, cobalt and gadolinium. Alnico magnets — a combination of aluminum (Al), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) — are very strong permanent magnets that retain their magnetism even when heated until they glow red, according to Chemicool.

The machined aluminum bodies are comfortable to hold, with a profile reminiscent of antique molding and rabbet planes. The bodies are carefully anodized to reduce friction and provide a long-lasting wear surface that won’t mar your stock.  We engineered the blade adjustment system to deliver smooth adjustment and minimal backlash. Put it all together and you have tools that perform flawlessly, feel good in your hands and will last for generations.

The five-cent nickel was introduced a few years later in 1866 just after the Civil War came to an end. Prior to the war, most coins were still made of gold and silver, which gave them intrinsic value. As rumors of war began to spread, people started hoarding these valuable coins, causing the economy to take a nosedive. To compensate for the lack of coins, people started trading stamps and notes that had been issued by banks and shops. Even Union soldiers were being paid with notes by the government.

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In the United States, nickels, dimes, quarters and half-dollars are still made of a copper-nickel alloy. The nickel coin, quite aptly, contains the most nickel at 25 percent, while the other coins are 8.33 percent nickel.

Nickel is typically found in two types of deposits: laterite deposits, which are the result of intensive weathering of surface nickel-rich rocks, and magmatic sulfide deposits. Nickel can also be found in manganese nodules and crusts on the deep sea floor, but currently these are not being mined, according to Geology.com. The main mineral sources of nickel are limonite, garnierite and pentlandite.

Because of its ability to withstand extremely high temperatures, nickel is the metal of choice for making superalloys — metal combos that are known for great strength as well as resistance to heat, corrosion and oxidation. In fact, approximately 65 percent of nickel is used to manufacture stainless steels and another 20 percent is used to make other steel and non-iron alloys, including highly-specialized military, aerospace and industrial uses, according to the Nickel Institute. About 9 percent is used in plating and 6 percent goes toward other types of applications, such as coins, batteries and electronics.

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Mu-metal is a soft magnetic alloy of approximately 80 percent nickel and 20 percent iron (and a dash of molybdenum). Mu-metal has very high permeability, which allows it to shield sensitive electronic equipment against static or low-frequency magnetic fields. If you place Mu-metal between a magnet and metal, the usual attraction actually disappears.

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But like most metals, nickel has a dark side when too much enters the human body. When large amounts of nickel — which is a known carcinogenic — accumulate in the soil, air, or our food and water supply, there are risks of toxicity.

People who work in jobs of nickel refining, electroplating and welding are at the greatest risk for health problems. Workers who breathe in traces of nickel dust are at an increased risk for lung cancer, fibrosis and other ailments.

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The discovery of nickel ore in 17th-century Europe is a tale of mistaken identity and superstition. In the 1600s, German miners searching for copper in the Ore Mountains came upon a previously unknown nickel ore (known today as nickel arsenide or niccolite) — a pale brownish-red rock of nickel and arsenic. Believing they'd discovered another copper ore, the miners attempted to extract the copper, but, of course, the rocks failed to produce. The frustrated miners blamed Nickel, a mischievous demon in German mythology, for playing a prank on them and began calling the ore kupfernickel, translated as "copper demon."

Few things are made of pure nickel. Instead, nickel tends to play a supportive and stabilizing role in industry materials; it is usually combined with other metals to produce stronger, shinier and more durable products. Nickel is commonly used as a protective outer coating for softer metals.

Nickel is the fifth most abundant element on Earth. However, it is 100 times more concentrated below the Earth's crust than in it, according to Chemicool. In fact, nickel is believed to be the second most abundant element in the Earth's inner core, with iron being the first by a large margin.

The lawmakers listened, and in 1866, the American government minted 15 million 5-cent coins made of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel. Nickels flooded the economy and became the most prominent coin in the after-war years.

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In the meantime, industrialist Joseph Wharton had bought several nickel mines in the early years of the war. Nickel was a much-needed metal during the war as it was used to help make military equipment. Once the war ended, however, there was a surplus of nickel, and Wharton probably wondered what he was going to do with all of his nickel. He urged legislators to start making more coins with nickel. After all, people would be a lot less likely to hoard this less valuable metal.