Can You Use A Router To Plane Wood
A benchtop jig for flattening rough sawn slabs with a router bit.
Can you use a router to plane wood. Using the Router Plane. This is a hand router that helps with cutting housings dados tenons and other recesses. Mount an oversized base plate on your router and screw the base plate to a pair of stiff straight stretchers Make your stretchers at least twice as long as the width of the workpiece plus 8 in.
Heres how you can use your router with a straight bit to plane wide material. If you want to cut grooves of the wood without a router then you can use this type of plane. Make a pair of rails at least 8 in.
Now you can see the results. For end grain using a router turns the cutting angle to perpendicular to the grain since the cutting approach is from the side of the material and not the top. Paul prefers the thumb screw on the Stanley router plane compared to the Lie Nielsen knurled screw as it gives more purchase.
Now use a chisel to defi ne the edges and chip out a little waste at the stop end of the slot. Longer than the workpiece. A logical Step 2 to the Step 1 video a couple of weeks back about Turning a Log into Lumber with.
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. Draw a slot 1 wide and 6 long. All you need do is build a routing jig and mount it on the jig and you can plane thickness and even joint any stock of wood with it.
Set your plane for 118 deep and go for it. Cut Patterns and Designs. A wood plane with its special cutter and holder is in your hands.