Just received a medium Veritas router plane. Tried it out thinning a few tenons. What a great tool. Beats the heck out of bench chisels, files, and sandpaper! I'm already thinking through a number of other uses. Aren't new toys fun
Just received a medium Veritas router plane. Tried it out thinning a few tenons. What a great tool. Beats the heck out of bench chisels, files, and sandpaper! I'm already thinking through a number of other uses. Aren't new toys fun
Yes, even when they are a century old "new toy."Aren't new toys fun
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
The multi tool of planes. You will find all kinds of things to do with a router. You will quickly find you need more then one. Great new toy.
Jim
I do love my router plane. I have the large and intend to get the medium as well. I use it to clean out mortices, but when I read your post I thought maybe you meant mortices instead of tenons. It prompted me to go to the Google University of Higher Learning first, and found this tutorial. http://www.leevalley.com/newsletters...article1-3.htm Hmmm, I have not tried this, so I won't knock it yet, but I have always just sawn to the line and then used a shoulder plane, skewed rabbet plane, or chisel to adjust (depending on size of tenon). I do see the merit of having an adjustable depth and getting a centered tenon.
It certainly is a very versatile tool, often overlooked and probably underrated.
It appears that this whole thread may be loaded, may as well join in with a little Knob Creek. And a famous quote "No one can have just one". That goes for planes and the other as well.
Jim
They're great tools. I've got my eye on the LV.
Caution on tenons, though: you're trimming both sides differently most of the time, so I just use them for levelling, not fine tuning the tenon.
Shoulder plane/rabbet plane still the best for that.
I hadn't thought of using a router plane to dial in tenons, either, but a LV team guy showed me this trick at WIA in Winston-Salem last fall. As soon as he did I could see that it was the best way to go.
Okay, Maybe I am the odd one out, but I have been using the router plane like that for years. I use the shoulder plane, well, for shoulders. But there are many good ways. to each their own.
Enjoy the router plane. They are great!
Shawn
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What may have been intended was more a caution about how getting the tenon centered may not work if the mortise is slightly off center.
When it gets to the point of removing a scant amount from a shaving the shoulder, rabbet or even a chisel is easier to control over a wider area than a router plane with a half inch blade.
Of course, ymmv.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I don't think they are.
But - If I need to trim a skootch off of a tenon face, I'll be done and gone by the time the router gets set up and in place.
On the shoulder plane - you need to tune up a shoulder............Not sure how to attempt that on a router.
If you mean "cut the tenon in the first place" - well, different kettle of fish. I don't use routers to cut Ms or Ts.
I feel a whole lot more like I do now, than I did a little while ago.
My plan is to live forever. So far, so good.