How To Use Your Router As A Planer

In this video I go over how to make a router plane out of some scrap cherry and some eye bolts.

How to use your router as a planer. Though you can use the router planer on long boards as the cuts will still not be against end grain if youre doing lots of planing of regular planks then youd be better off investing in a thickness planer or handheld power planer. The height of your rails depends on the length of. Next time Im going to see if I can add a depth screw it should be reasonably straightforward I think if I can find a usable ready-made piece to use as the thumb-nut.

Remove Router Base Plate. Add 1 32 to this measurement to allow just enough room to prevent binding when the router moves across the sled. Choose the right.

This is a quick hand tool woodworking project that most anyone can do and the results can change a shop. Learn more aboute Route Tags Assign Tags to this Route CREATE NEW. One way is to use a router and a jig.

Make a pair of rails at least 8 in. You dont need an industrial-sized thickness planer to flatten large slabs of wood. Do you want to know about best plunge routers.

Using the Router Plane. Step 2 no flex. If you have a really nice thick piece of wood and it is too wide to go through your planer how can you get faces of the wood smooth and parallel.

How They Did It. Enough talk lets make. I made a router from a lump of oak using a 6mm Veritas cutter and after a bit of tweaking of the design it works very well indeed.