Reply To: Stanley No 71 Hand Router
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Yet another approach is to remove the bulk with a chisel, use a router plane to flatten from the shoulder to as far out as you can reach without rocking the router, and then do the very end with your #4 bench plane. You can go back and forth between the router and bench plane. As long as the router is taking care of the area near the shoulder, the bench plane won’t get hung up from the closed portion of its mouth. You really don’t even need the router and can use a chisel to carefully get the last 1/4″ to 1/2″ near the shoulder and use the plane to level everything to that. If you have a rabbet plane, that’s another option. This is a method Paul taught us amongst others. The router plane is really nice, but it is dispensable. You need to watch your lines with these methods since you don’t have the router machining the face for you.