Possibly useful link: router plane kit
Apr. 7th, 2023 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damontQuick update on my woodworking musings, first one in a year or so...
Quick links back to parts 1 and 2 of my series:
Part 1
Part 2
It had occurred to me this time last year that the side panels for the storage area could prove to be tricky. The way I would prefer to build them would be to cut grooves in the side boards that the bottom board would fit into, so small things would be much less likely to slip out. This, however, is not the easiest thing to do well with saws and chisels. (Power tools make this much easier but that's WAY out of my budget, and also I'd need a place to store them.) Cutting grooves and dadoes by hand is certainly doable, but there's a tool to make the process a lot more precise and less troublesome.
That tool is called a router plane. And they're ... not cheap.
One of the YouTubers I follow (Rex Krueger) has helped start a company on the side whose goal is to make more affordable tools where there appears to be a need for such. And I just saw his intro video for that company's new router plane kit. So here's the link to the item itself:
Compass Rose Router Plane Kit
I'm posting this in part because it is a bit of an update for this project which, for various Reasons, has slowed way down, and in part because it's a convenient place for me to park the link for when I have the ability to go obtain a kit, which I think I do want when I can manage it. And who knows, maybe someone else will see this and think "That looks neat, maybe I might want one too" -- unlikely, but you never know.
Quick links back to parts 1 and 2 of my series:
Part 1
Part 2
It had occurred to me this time last year that the side panels for the storage area could prove to be tricky. The way I would prefer to build them would be to cut grooves in the side boards that the bottom board would fit into, so small things would be much less likely to slip out. This, however, is not the easiest thing to do well with saws and chisels. (Power tools make this much easier but that's WAY out of my budget, and also I'd need a place to store them.) Cutting grooves and dadoes by hand is certainly doable, but there's a tool to make the process a lot more precise and less troublesome.
That tool is called a router plane. And they're ... not cheap.
One of the YouTubers I follow (Rex Krueger) has helped start a company on the side whose goal is to make more affordable tools where there appears to be a need for such. And I just saw his intro video for that company's new router plane kit. So here's the link to the item itself:
Compass Rose Router Plane Kit
I'm posting this in part because it is a bit of an update for this project which, for various Reasons, has slowed way down, and in part because it's a convenient place for me to park the link for when I have the ability to go obtain a kit, which I think I do want when I can manage it. And who knows, maybe someone else will see this and think "That looks neat, maybe I might want one too" -- unlikely, but you never know.
