Can You Use A Router To Plane Wood

Going on till you reach on your marking line.

Can you use a router to plane wood. Long before there were motorized routers there were router planes. 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. A wood plane with its special cutter and holder is in your hands.

Longer than the workpiece. Inserting end grain in a planer means the knives have to cut perpendicular to the wood which is much harder and results in poor results and dull knives. If you are really attached to certain pieces of painted lumber a set of dull blades may not be a huge issue.

Mount an oversized base plate on your router and screw the base plate to a pair of stiff straight stretchers Make your stretchers at least twice as long as the width of the workpiece plus 8 in. These ingenious handtools still have their uses. Clamp a scrap of 2 x 4 thats 1 long in your bench vise.

Now you can see the results. I didnt think this possible at first but it turns out you can also plane and thickness wood with a router tool. 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.

The router bit makes groove cut on the wood by the rotation of the bits. Paul Sellers shows how to make a Poor Mans Router. You can also use a hand plane or the router planing jig shown below.

No matter which way you feed the wood youre planing with the grain part of the time and against it the other part. 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. Cut Patterns and Designs.