In this video paul sellers shows you how to sharpen a router plane one of our most highly demanded videos.
How to make a router plane iron. Perhaps there is some advantage to that design since modern commercially available router planes both metal bodied and wooden e g. This is a quick hand tool woodworking project that most anyone can do and the results can change a shop. A final adjustment to a dado or rabbet s depth or trimming a tenon s cheeks. Making this plane is a great introduction to tool making.
As you become more adept with your router plane you ll reach for it more and. This jig allows you to joint and plane bigger boards that won t fit in your planer or jointer with help of a router. In this video i go over how to make a router plane out of some scrap cherry and some eye bolts. Whether you have a new or second hand router plane paul sellers sharpening method.
Another design of a router plane uses a homemade iron blade made from a hex wrench allen key. Given all the recent discussions on the lack of low cost new or used planes i thought that it might be of interest. A router plane is an easy tool to make and it was one of the first that i made. Final detail and carving.
With little more than a brace bit and chisel you can make one. These would need a separate body for each size of blade. Ece all seem to come with an l shaped blade. After using it for making all kinds of rabbets and.
A router plane is my go to tool for trimming any small surface that needs to be in the same plane as its surrounding surface. Make a router plane step 1. Making a simple and cheap router sled for flattening boards and slabs. I came across this youtube video on how to make a router plane by young je.
I ve started making this router plane some months ago and use it simple just with the oak body drilled and a 1 4 veritas router plane blade. Now stand the router plane plus iron and check the shaftfor square. The link is below. The lower outer section of the eye bolt is round and needsto be flattened to fit securely in the mortice.