Homemade Mini Router Plane
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11 November 2016 at 4:58 pm #142346
Hey everybody. I’m working on a chair and needed a way to cut in a small, thin recess on some parts. After some thought (and helpful suggestions from others), I made a small router plane that holds a 1/8″ chisel. I started with a piece of 2×4, squared it up and cut one end at 45°. Then cut a 1/8″ slot vertically up the angled end, just big enough to fit the 1/8″ chisel. Put the chisel in the slot, then screwed a piece over the chisel and voila – a router plane.
If anybody wants to read more about this, I blogged about it at tinyshopww.blogspot.com in the post entitled “Nana’s Dining Chair Rebuild, Part 6: Some Details”.
Happy woodworking!
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You must be logged in to view attached files.17 November 2016 at 9:22 pm #142478@bow – I’m currently reading through the Lost Art Press set of books “The Woodworker: The Charles H. Hayward Years” and I’m at a section on router planes. There might be a plan for a small router in wood, but the plans are not very complete. If you have these books or know someone who does, maybe you could look it up (it’s in Volume 1). Alternatively, it’s possible that the original article is available online somewhere since the years that Hayward oversaw the Woodworker magazine were 1937 to 1960ish. Unfortunately, the books do not tell what year (or issue number) of the Woodworker magazine the article came from.
18 November 2016 at 1:13 am #142485Here is a link to a book by Hayward on making woodworking tools. It appears to be “fair use”.
There are large and small router planes on page 24 (plus lots of other good stuff :)).
18 November 2016 at 2:35 pm #142500Just glancing through the PDF, it looks like s good find. Thanks for the link. You made my morning.
Check out Paul Sellers video and blog for his poor man’s router plane using a chisel:
https://paulsellers.com/2012/06/pauls-poor-mans-router/
Stumpy Nubs also makes one using the cutters from a routing plane, although it looked a bit more involved:
1 December 2016 at 2:25 am #142826@pjgeorge – Wow, Peter, what a great resource there. Some of those tools are in “The Woodworker – The Charles Hayward Years”, which I’m still trying to get through. I’ve got to bookmark your link. Thanks!!
@profbwnsv – John, I made myself a Sellers “poor man’s router” before I broke down and bought a real router plane. It’s almost impossible to set the chisel straight into the block of wood on the Sellers plane so that you get a flat bottom on your dado. Didn’t work for me at all. -
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