Holder for Veritas Router Plane

[Matt Evans]

I have been meaning to make this or something like it for a long time. Dirt simple, but clears up the clutter of blades and accessories for the Router plane.

No more worry about knocking the blades against each other on the shelf of the till.

[Jim Koepke]

Great solution, it is likely to be borrowed by others.

The mortise to allow for an extended blade is brilliant.

jtk

[David Dalzell]

"Great solution, it is likely to be borrowed by others."

Like me.:)

[Derek Cohen]

I'll borrow it. Thanks Matt!

OK, a variation. At present my router planes are on a shelf inside this chaotic cabinet ...

https://i.postimg.cc/DykhjgLR/Router1.jpg

See ...

https://i.postimg.cc/rytcNb0S/Router2.jpg

What would work great would be Matt's tray as a slide out shelf ... :)


Regards from Perth

Derek

[Matt Evans]

Great solution, it is likely to be borrowed by others.

The mortise to allow for an extended blade is brilliant.

jtk

Thanks!


I'll borrow it. Thanks Matt!

OK, a variation. At present my router planes are on a shelf inside this chaotic cabinet ...

https://i.postimg.cc/DykhjgLR/Router1.jpg

See ...

https://i.postimg.cc/rytcNb0S/Router2.jpg

What would work great would be Matt's tray as a slide out shelf ... :)


Regards from Perth

Derek

Nice shop cabinet! I have two pieces of glass left over from a job that I have been wanting to build into a shop cabinet door set, but am really worried that the glass will get broken in short order. It would be awesome to be able to pull out a few tools and have them NOT be covered in sawdust.

Crud. Now I am going to have to think of a way to put some sort of pull out in the till for it. I've already set aside some wood for a set of two small drawers that I need to build for it for extra plane parts and blades, might have to do a pull out for the plane at the same time.

[Gary Ragatz]

Nice! I don't have a router plane, but I have a cast scratch stock with about a dozen blades that are hard to keep track of/sort through. I think with slots instead of holes for the blades this would work pretty well.

[Mike Henderson]

That's a good idea. I just have mine in a drawer along with a bunch of other planes. Maybe I'll make a box to go around your idea.

Mike

[Jim Koepke]

That's a good idea. I just have mine in a drawer along with a bunch of other planes. Maybe I'll make a box to go around your idea.

Mike

A rabbet around the top of the base for the box to settle on and a knob on the front and it could be a drawer/box.

jtk

[lowell holmes]

I had a Stanley 71 router plane, but after the Hurricane Harvey flood I haven't found it.

I went looking for it and found my Wixey table saw blade angle gauge, put two AAA batteries in it and it works.
I haven't had a need for it for years, but I think I will make something using it. I am making the Shaker stepladder,
and there are angled cuts be made.

[michael langman]

Nice job on the router storage Matt. I too will use your idea for my router. Thanks for posting.

[Tony Joyce]

I went with a box, but I'm reconsidering that now. I may go with a drawer when I build my tool chest.
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[Kris Cook]

I like this idea a lot. I have the same router plane, and although I have places for most of my other planes my router plane just sits in a shelf inside my tool cabinet, and the blades are in another tool chest drawer wrapped in the oily protective paper.

Will be adding this to the list.

[lowell holmes]

My Stanley 71 1/2 router plane. It is missing the guides. Does anyone know where to find the guides.
I am not sure what they were used for.

[Jim Koepke]

My Stanley 71 1/2 router plane. It is missing the guides. Does anyone know where to find the guides.
I am not sure what they were used for.

Is it possible you mean the part that was held on the underside and worked like a fence?

jtk

[Reinis Kanders]

My plane has a little bit larger wooden sub-sole that has a small hole. I hang it from the wall using that hole.

[Derek Cohen]

Thanks for the inspiration, Matt. I put this together yesterday.

It was intended as a test of the concept, and the shelf is simply an offcut of veneered MDF which was lying around (a friend gave me a several boards, which I have been using to build shop cabinets). I outlined the tools, and then free-handed the removal of waste with a power router.

https://i.postimg.cc/MTfM4kLc/Router-board1.jpg

Back in the cabinet (see earlier picks for a comparison) ...

https://i.postimg.cc/WzRFcWR5/Router-board3.jpg

It slides very nicely. I may just not bother to make another ...

https://i.postimg.cc/2y4qkQrr/Router-board2.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Ray Newman]

Now that pull tray is really useful!

[Tony Zaffuto]

My Stanley 71 1/2 router plane. It is missing the guides. Does anyone know where to find the guides.
I am not sure what they were used for.

Lowell, for pieces missing from Stanley tools (as well as many others), contact Patrick Leach/Super Tool.

[Matt Evans]

Thanks for the inspiration, Matt. I put this together yesterday.

It was intended as a test of the concept, and the shelf is simply an offcut of veneered MDF which was lying around (a friend gave me a several boards, which I have been using to build shop cabinets). I outlined the tools, and then free-handed the removal of waste with a power router.

https://i.postimg.cc/MTfM4kLc/Router-board1.jpg

Back in the cabinet (see earlier picks for a comparison) ...

https://i.postimg.cc/WzRFcWR5/Router-board3.jpg

It slides very nicely. I may just not bother to make another ...

https://i.postimg.cc/2y4qkQrr/Router-board2.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

Very nice Derek! Adding Dovetail runners to mine as bottom mount drawer slides. Just about done, need to make a pull of some sort.

I made mine with a scrap of Ipe. I always forget how much I dislike working Ipe with my chisels. It is great for strike buttons, mallet faces and such, but dulls tools very quickly, and I have a tendency to chip chisel edges almost immediately when working with Ipe.

[lowell holmes]

Yes, that is what I want.

[Steven Mikes]

My router plane hangs on the back wall of my cabinet from a nail, through one of the two holes in the body (yes I have to retract the blade first). The other blades are upright in a block of wood with holes glued to the inside of one of the doors. Too lazy to take a picture :p

[Matt Evans]

Here it is, sans pull, which I have yet to make.