How To Use A Router As A Planer

This clamping jig adds stability to this ungainly process.

How to use a router as a planer. Here Samurai Carpenter smooths that. I didnt think this possible at first but it turns out you can also plane and thickness wood with a router tool. Rotate the second rail around the screw until the rail is parallel to the first rail then remove the first screw and slide the rail up or down until level.

You dont need an industrial-sized thickness planer to flatten large slabs of wood. Using A Router Table As Planer. Remember the bit rotation from the top is clockwise so with your straight edge on the left make a push cut and the rotation will hold the router tight to the fence photo 13 - above.

Measure Your Router and Router Bit. Just what Loren said. How to Make Your Router Into a Surface Planer.

Set up the Router. Turn on your router and run some scrap material across the table using the fence to guide and support the piece. Joint the First Board.

Sweet tip A logical Step 2 to the Step 1 video a couple of weeks back about Turning a Log into Lumber with an Alaska Chainsaw Mill with David Groth. Mount the screws with the heads raised slightly. These screws will prevent the jig from moving side to side before the router bit cuts into the rails.

Ive used a router as a planer for a while it is the only way to plane short pieces of stock safely. If the face isnt flat the edges wont have good reference for a true 90 adjacent edge. When Should You Use a Router.