What is a router plane used for?
What is a router plane used for?
A router plane is a hand plane used in woodworking for smoothing out sunken panels, and more generally for all depressions below the general surface of the pattern. It planes the bottoms of recesses to a uniform depth and can work into corners that otherwise can only be reached with a chisel.
What hand plane is the most useful for creating tight fitting mortise and tenon joints?
Take a load off your shoulders and cheeks This makes shoulder planes perfect for trimming tight-fitting tenons and rabbets. Some also trim dadoes and grooves if narrow enough to fit in the channel. Small shoulder planes measure 5⁄ 8 ” to 3⁄ 4 ” wide, while larger ones go up to 1 1⁄ 4 ” wide.
What are router planes used for?
Router Planes are essential for any work that requires precise depth cuts, such as mortises, tenons, hinge gains, inlay, door locks, and the like. Loosely based on the Stanley No. 71, our Large Router Planes feature an improved Brass depth stop and Stainless Steel blade adjuster for precise control of cutting depth.
What is a closed throat router plane?
The Closed Throat design gives more support in front of the blade, making it ideal for working on the edges of boards or cleaning out the end of a stopped groove in a rail or stile. Our Router Planes have square blades, held solidly in square broached holes.
Can the large router plane blade adapter be used with other blades?
Additional blades for our Small Router Plane are available and can be used in the Large Router Plane with the Large Router Plane Blade Adapter. The body is cast from Ductile Iron, a very strong alloy that will take a lot of abuse.
Why were router planes replaced by their modern counterparts?
They were replaced by their modern counterparts because they couldn’t match their production speed, not because they no longer worked. A router plane is my go-to tool for trimming any small surface that needs to be in the same plane as its surrounding surface; a final adjustment to a dado or rabbet’s depth, or trimming a tenon’s cheeks.
