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It would have one advantage, actually, in that you could rout shorter mortises/sinkings/holes than is possible with the style of router plane more commonly seen nowadays. This is one of my two objections to the Lee Valley hinge mortise plane - the use of a cutting iron from their full-size router limits the length of the hinge (or other hardware) for which the plane is usable.
Bill, you can use the Veritas or Stanley (and others). I made a custom router blade (using the shank of a hex key) for this purpose ...