How To Make The World’s Best Router Plane: Episode 2
In this final episode, we go all the way from creating the handles to making the cutting iron and the retainer bar, installing the components, and finishing the plane with a shellac finish.
In this final episode, we go all the way from creating the handles to making the cutting iron and the retainer bar, installing the components, and finishing the plane with a shellac finish.
This episode is Paul’s answer to a worldwide problem of supply and demand and he guarantees that you will not only love making your own, fully adjustable router plane, but also owning one for a lifetime of work.
Can a homemade wooden router plane give you what an all-metal one gives you? It absolutely can! We guarantee it!
Making decorative inlays can seem daunting, and knowing just where to start can be obscured. Paul put this together as an inlay for you to begin inlaying yourself using any wood you have in your workspace. Enjoy!
Scribing the angles for the feet and making certain that the legs are wedged correctly and the stool rests firmly on all fours is a trick we give away with this episode.
With just a few hand tools and a couple of hours in the garage, you will find yourself completely engrossed in a new dimension of making where there is no knifewall joinery and not much layout at all.
Few projects are as simple to make as a small stool and, whether it is a step stool, footstool, or one for the kiddies, this one is made for you to make.
The stand for the cutting board is an excellent vehicle for learning how to cut stopped housing dadoes where both ends are enclosed. You’ll discover the true power of hand tool woodworking as every muscle and sinew is focussed on the hands and upper body.
This little series relies on a few different techniques that will come in handy as you grow in your craft. In the end, you own or gift a nice set of kitchen cutting boards and a spatula.
Not all of Paul’s projects need to be large or complicated to result in a gem of a project.