How To Use A Router To Plane Wood

Take the jack plane and put it on the wood and move forward with the help of the knob at its top over the wood piece.

How to use a router to plane wood. 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. Long before there were motorized routers there were router planes. Now you can see the results.

Make Cutter Support. In contrast a power router doesnt require any of that. Plowing a groove to a consistent depth even in curved stock and flattening the recess for a hinge mortise once youve chiseled away most of the waste.

With the bit clear of the stock start the router and grab the jig outside the rails and start to rout in straight passes across the wood. Mount one rail on the side of your work using a single screw ensuring the rail top is higher than the tallest area of the surface you intend to plane. Use cutting oil and a holding block.

If the base is too thick the router bit might not be long enough to extend past the bottom of the jig. Mark out the housing as described opposite and use the sliding bevel to mark the dovetail on both edges of the panel. You can use the router on both a push and a pull stroke.

Router Plane Woodworking Plans. The back on mine is 1 x 1 and I want it to be about 2 tall to give the cutting iron more support. How to use a router to plane wood to thicknessww.

Try selling a Stanley-Chapman Plane for 1. With a square file see Sources shape the hole to fit the hex keys cross-section Photo 6. Dugan shows how to surface rough slabs into dimensional lumber and how to sand it to a dead flat table top.