How To Use A Router As A Planer

First its hard to envision a sled for a handheld planer second a router can be set up once and then used to make multiple shallow cuts by adjusting the cut depth.

How to use a router as a planer. You dont need an industrial-sized thickness planer to flatten large slabs of wood. You can use your hands running against the outer faces of the rails to ensure that you are moving the router accurately. All you need do is build a routing jig and mount it on the jig and you can plane thickness and even joint any stock of wood with it.

Youll find the star knobs and T-tracks at woodworking supply stores. Steps to Use a Router as a Jointer. Sweet tip A logical Step 2 to the Step 1 video a couple of weeks back about Turning a Log into Lumber with an Alaska Chainsaw Mill with David Groth.

Using a heavy-duty router equipped with a 1-inch-diameter top-bearing flush cutting bit a shop-built sled and two rails the. If the face isnt flat the edges wont have good reference for a true 90 adjacent edge. With the high spot located raise the cutter and then lower it.

Diy router sled tutorial for the big make your router think it s a jointer easy and adjule diy router planer slab flattening mill woods. A planer is best at reducing thickness smoothing and making one side parallel to the opposite side. 2 Jan 26 2010.

You can get a 1-34 diameter bit so you dont have to do so many passes-- Half of what we read or hear about finishing is right. Easier than using a straight edge is to put a couple of pieces of masking tape behind the router outfeed fence. Use a combo-square to mark lines at the edges of the hole.

This will offset it by a couple of thousandths of an inch. Here Samurai Carpenter smooths that. Mount the screws with the heads raised slightly.