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    Router Plane

    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

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    Aren't new toys fun
    Yes, even when they are a century old "new toy."

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    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.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Pallas View Post
    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
    Good - so I don't have to feel bad about having six?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Koepke View Post
    Yes, even when they are a century old "new toy."

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    Bwahhhh!! Maker's Mark all over the monitor. Thanks a lot, Jim.
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    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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Engel View Post
    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 don't mean to hijack the thread...but how would using a shoulder or rabbet plane be more accurate on tenons than a router?
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  10. 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.

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    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Houghton View Post
    Good - so I don't have to feel bad about having six?
    I now feel smug about having only three. Thank you! (The router plane is – no hyperbole – my favorite tool.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harold Burrell View Post
    I don't mean to hijack the thread...but how would using a shoulder or rabbet plane be more accurate on tenons than a router?
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harold Burrell View Post
    I don't mean to hijack the thread...but how would using a shoulder or rabbet plane be more accurate on tenons than a router?
    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.
    When I started woodworking, I didn't know squat. I have progressed in 30 years - now I do know squat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kent A Bathurst View Post
    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.
    Okay...now I'm really confused. You M & T fish???
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