How To Use Your Router As A Planer

In this article well show you how to solve the most common problems of tearout snipe and ridges and a few of our techniques for special projects.

How to use your router as a planer. 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. A router plane is an easy tool to make and it was one of the first that I made. Begin feeding your stock into the cutter just like you would normally rout photo 6.

With a jointer you always have to stand your stock on edge. Whatever pattern design or shape you can trace the outline of the original piece with your router to recreate that pattern on your stock. So i wanted to.

Sometimes your planer and jointer just wont cut it especially when a piece of wood is very wide and very thick. Remove Router Base Plate. Its actually possible to do it with your router and about 20 worth of material.

Cut Inlays in Wood. Log in or create an account to post a comment. How would you get two opposite faces of an odd chunk of wood perfectly parallel to each other.

The height of your rails depends on the length of. The first step is to tap the address you wish to add. How to Make Your Router Into a Surface Planer.

The last thing to do before using your plane is to chisel out a recess for the thumbscrews head Photo 10. You can do this in two ways. For safe and successful use we will help you increase your knowledge and enhance your skills on how to use a wood router for beginners.