Rob's new router plane?

Re: Rob's new router plane?

Ron In Kokomo

>I can think of an application or two that you probably can do faster with the hand router than you can by the time you set up the whirling demon and do the fixturing you'll need to do for accuracy

It also depends a great deal on the scale of the job. For example there are several extremely skilled cabinet mnakers on this site who can dovetail a drawer faster by hand than you an I can get our the router and the dovetail jig and get everything set up and make the joints. That's one drawer.... not eight.

The problem with the two horse screaming devil is that it requires a good bit of set up to make sure that it cuts precisely where you want it to. For some small jobs the hand router is a heck of a lot easier.

It is also much harder to mangle your hand with the hand router :), and I've never heard of a hand routher cutter ciming out and going thru a wall.

My .02

Re: Rob's new router plane?

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>When you have to rout out a small and precise recessor just trim off about 1/8" or less a hand powered router is a lot less likely to get out of control and take off more than you want. Another case would be where you need to make one small and shallow mortise inthe center of a board. Mark it out with a combo square and a marking knife, chop out the gross wood close to your finished depth with a chisel, and clean up with the router plane. The whole thing can be completed in the time it would take you to get just to the marking and fixturing stage with a power routah. I'm sure that others will chime in with a bunch of other examples.

Re: Rob's new router plane?

George Huron

>I like it best to trim small shavings from tenon cheeks, rabbets and dados without the need to set up a fence. This tool used on a tenon cheek followed by a shoulder plane used to trim the shoulder produces beautiful fitting mortise and tenons.

Re: Rob's new router plane?

Brent Smith

>Router planes were originally used to trim a dado after it had been cleaned out with a chisel. The router plane was used to give a uniform depth and clean bottom to a dado.The smaller versions were used for the same purpose and also for cleaning the bottoms of mortises.

Brent

Different animal

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Denny,

You're trying to comp two totally different tools. The name is the same but a hand router is a tool designed for flattening the bottoms of mortises,dados,tenon cheeks,etc..A power router is a tool for shaping wood. You can flatten the bottoms of mortises with a power router but it's alot easier with the hand version.---Jack

Thanks for the info!

Denny

>I guess I'll have to get my hands on one and take it for a test drive...

Re: Thanks for the info!

Ernie Miller

>I think that was discussed last week you will want at least one for each blade. We are colectore not users here. Ops I mean user not colectors