Reply To: Stanley No 71 Hand Router
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@mark68 yes, that’s how I read it, too. I think you’re going to find that making the base is so quick and easy that it’s fine to use whatever you have. Ply is excellent and easy because it is flat and wide. Solid wood is more amenable to being planed or sanded if you decide you need an adjustment for some reason. I’ve never had to tweak mine, though. It’s a Veritas, if that matters.
Really, you just cut a hunk of wood, screw the plane to it via the holes in the base, trace the opening in the base, remove the plane, cut out the tracing with a coping saw, and reattach the plane. Done. If you have a scrap of ply, you’ll be done in fifteen minutes. If you have a scrap of pine or just about anything else, add more time to flatten it and to make the two faces parallel.
I’d use ply, myself. Good plywood, but plywood. Easy.
- This reply was modified 6 years ago by Ed.