Can You Use A Router To Plane Wood

So put your new router plane to use right now.

Can you use a router to plane wood. Paul recommends the Stanley or Record router plane secondhand if you can find one eBay is usually the best place to find these. A wood plane with its special cutter and holder is in your hands. A benchtop jig for flattening rough sawn slabs with a router bit.

A bigger concern is the fact that painted and therefore used lumber is notorious for hiding metal fasteners that can ruin your planer blades and seriously damage your planer. You can also add a wooden sole onto the plane sole as wood on wood has much less friction compared to metal which can also mark lighter coloured woods. No matter which way you feed the wood youre planing with the grain part of the time and against it the other part.

Heres how you can use your router with a straight bit to plane wide material. If you have a beautiful thick piece of timber that is too wide to use your Planer you can get the face of the wood parallel and smooth using a router and a jig. Plowing a groove to a consistent depth even in curved stock and flattening the recess for a hinge mortise once youve chiseled away most of the waste.

Paul Sellers shows how to make a Poor Mans Router. If you cannot find these the Lie Nielsen is also a good new option. Now use a chisel to defi ne the edges and chip out a little waste at the stop end of the slot.

A logical Step 2 to the Step 1 video a couple of weeks back about Turning a Log into Lumber with. If you are really attached to certain pieces of painted lumber a set of dull blades may not be a huge issue. Longer than the workpiece.

Figured wood doesnt have a consistent grain direction making it difficult to joint or plane. A router is a simple and accurate way to plane wood while saving time and energy. You can use the router on both a push and a pull stroke.