Shopmade Router Plane

Looks great and I like your locking knob idea, very creative. I can tell it works well just by looking at it, but it would have been nice to see some shavings from it anyway.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Nice! How exactly do you harden the allen wrench?

What great project. Good job. I may have to make one of these myself.

-- Hersh from Port Angeles, WA - Gotta Complete That Project!

Ill second the request for “how did you harden the allen wrench?” I have been looking to do build somthing similar but have no idea how to treat the metal.

Nice tool, and looks really good too. Nice work!

great little router plane. They are quite a handy tool.

-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario

This not only useful but gorgeous too. Great job.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Awesome. I will third the sentiment of how do you harden an allen wrench.

-- If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would be completely invisible.

Hey thanks everyone. For those looking to learn more about heat treating the steel, there is a great write up on Ron Hock’s website. It’s not a thorough instruction process, but he definitely gives enough information to get started.
You’re basically just heating the iron with a propane torch and quenching it. That’s it in a nutshell, but read Ron’s article to get the specifics…
http://www.hocktools.com/diyht.htm

i like seeing homemade tools..great job

-- We call the destruction of replaceable human made items vandalism, while the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources is called development.

Great shop made tool. What size allen wrench? 1/4”, 5/16” ? The cabinet knob is a nice addition.

Thanks for the link on hardening too.

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

Great design. Nice and simple.

-- -Sam - West Virginia -

Very nice tool : ) I like the knob solution !!

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

I like this a lot!

Very cool idea and execution. What size allen wrench did you use?

-- If your not having fun you're doing it wrong.