Yes, I know many people make router planes with an allen key as the cutter. Yes, I like this approach. But, it requires a grinder, which many people don't have. This version requires no power-tools.

@ColePanike

4 жыл бұрын

Do you happen to have a link to how that would be done? I'm curious about this.

@JohnJbVlogsyt

4 жыл бұрын

@Cole here's a simple one I found kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6iVs5mMfM_Sppc.html

@ColePanike

4 жыл бұрын

​@@JohnJbVlogsyt Thanks! I did find another here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJl6uMOKZNiXhLA.html&ab_channel=self-build.%E6%9E%97%E4%B9%85

@cozimfrench

4 жыл бұрын

Love you rex! Keep being you-nique

@TomBuskey

4 жыл бұрын

I bought a modern blade instead of the allen key to make a router plane. You can get the all the micro adjustments of the metal planes with that or the allen key. It still isn't free though.

After watching so many of your videos I firmly believe that your catchphrase should be " Let's just make one"

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

That's actually a pretty good idea...

@atomjordan

3 жыл бұрын

Its a dangerous game and a rabbit hole!

@wierdalien1

3 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger it feels a bit like the practical version of Ian McCollum, archiving forgotten tools.

@anthonyattaway3437

3 жыл бұрын

Thats my go to phrase

I love that you love the old tools and crafts so much. And that you care for people not being able to invest lots of money into their hobby. Thank you very much for showing how I can build a router plane on the cheap (and yes, the plans are very fair-priced)!

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Jeez, Rex, where do I start? I'm 21, and just started to pick up woodworking for the first time since I took shop classes in high school. You've encouraged me to build an entire fireplace surround during my winter break! I think it came out great, used rough cut cherry and maple, and your videos gave me the confidence to design, route, shape, sand, and install all of it by myself, using my grandfathers' (both my mother and father's dads were carpenters/machinists) 100+ yr old tools to create something new. Thanks for all of the help, and here's to all of the other fine projects in my future, thanks to you! Keep it up man!

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Man, what a great story! Thanks for sharing!

@DanYHKim2

4 жыл бұрын

You are an inspiration to us all! You will have a lifetime of great woodworking ahead of you, and the satisfaction of looking around your home and workplace, and seeing the fruit of your labors all around you. It is a wonderful feeling.

@Mpafanai46

3 жыл бұрын

I like the way of using simple tools keep it up Rex all the best from far² north eastern India

@rickkempf77

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great story !! Your Grampas would be proud

I personally LOVE that name: Hag's Tooth. It describes so vividly the object with beautiful fantastic imagery. Immediately I imagine the Hag in Legend and her sharp teeth, or a Baba Yaga travelling through the woody Russian lands. Straight out of a Grimm Faery Tale and nothing unwoke about that name, just pure poetic imagery. I absolutely love that this tool actually exists - so amazing and ingeneous were our fore-fathers. I always thought that routers had to be electric, well lo and behold! Thanks for all your awesome videos Rex! I really like that carriage bolt detail.

Use a bit of bannister rail [ staircase rail ] for the wood bit. Already moulded.

@MyUnquenchableThirst

4 жыл бұрын

this was mentioned in the video

Hag's tooth is a great name. Where i live (nld) they are called 'heksentand' (witches tooth), 'ouwewijventand' (old hag's tooth) or 'grondschaaf' (ground plane) I made on a while ago from big nail i flattened (and hardened). I never even thought about using a chisel. Great idea

i expected either something overly simple, like paul seller's version, or over complicated. nice job making something beautiful yet attainable for us average folks!

Much better than Paul Sellers poor man's router plane, far easier to get right. Thank you.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Well, his is much faster. It's not a long-term tool. But thanks anyway!

"Fool proof", "even a beginner" Heh, challenge accepted! But seriously, thanks, Rex, for this video. After seeing your vid on the spokeshave (i boughr one of the irons you linked) i thought "maybe something similar can be done to make a router...." And here you are, right on cue!

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to help out!

I totally plan to be a patron once i get working again. I am the poor and your "do everything by hand" is really appealing. Thank you for your fun videos.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Don't give it a second thought. My Patrons make this content free for everybody. It's a good system.

Ingenious solution for beginners! That mortise only really has only one surface to chisel. That's awesome!

Scraps of premade railing?... So what you are saying is that we can use some modern railing to make one? That is a great idea!

Nice work Satriani!

Rex, I think you fill an important and unique niche in social media wood working especially for newer, less experienced wood workers. Your series "Wood working for Humans" is an extremely useful and groundbreaking approach to creating with wood. Thank you for showing the world that one does not need a large budget and a shop full of expensive tools to create useful, beautiful objects.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

I could not have said it better! Thank you!

Its always been known as a granny's tooth in Britain.

I started watching your channel a few weeks back... I felt like I have learned more from you than any other KZreadr. Thank you for your videos!

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

And thank you!

“Random round object” is also my favorite corner profile. 😂

Well, it only took me a month and a half, but by following your videos I was finally able to construct my very own router plane and all it cost me was a 6mm chisel. And it even works! Thanks mate! Keep up the great work.

My grandfather had several of these. I always love the name: Hags tooth!!!

Well, as my grandfather said: 'Don't judge the past by modern standards, different times made different people.' I think that can apply nicely to tools, too.

I like that wall attached bench with drawer cabinet situated behind you. 😉

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I made everything but the drawers from garbage.

Very cool idea - splitting the block to make cutting the mortise for the blade and wedge easier.

This is really nice! A great melding of modern consumer goods (the steel chisel) and older tool-making (the body). The trick of cutting the body for access to the mortise is really nice, and I've seen it applied to other plane constructions. The channel is very informative and entertaining, with excellent production qualities. Good lighting, great camera angles, steady shots, and no wasted time! It is a pleasure to watch. Finally, all of the work and techniques feel accessible to mere mortals, especially when the videos are viewed in sequence. They really build on each other, building the skills and confidence of the student as they go. The channel truly turns the aspiring beginner into a real craftsman.

The veritas small router plane (not the miniature) is surprisingly usefull and afordable, recomended

@mytrashaccount3630

4 жыл бұрын

outch 60$ is not what everyone would call "affordable" ! :(

At home in bed with Covid, watched a bunch of your videos today, new subscriber. Remind me of Paul Sellars

At one point you mentioned the woodworker’s paradox, and I wondered if you had heard the term “bootstrapping” as in “to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps”. I’ve come into contacting it in the contexts of computers and operating systems. If you want to make a compiler, to take source code down to machine language, you can’t program it because you don;t have a compiler, so you have to use machine language in binary to build an assembler which can then allow you to program a little easier using assembly language which is at least made of words instead of binary. Then you can make a more advanced language using the assembly language, and keep recursing that process until you have a full fledged compiler. It’s a little easier these days because you can cross compile from other computer systems, but the idea still comes up in many contexts (for example, this is why starting a computer is known as “booting up”. The operating system has to load progressively more complicated things into memory but at the beginning as to rely on the bare minimum) . This is exactly what you are doing...building the bare minimum and spiraling up. Or with money one can choose to shortcut some of the steps. But it’s still super helpful to know how you could do that if you needed to for some reason, or to understand the evolution of tools so that you understand different components of the neeesttools in much better detail.

That's a clever idea, going Krenov on the construction of this kind of plane body. I have a nice router plane, but I might make one of these just for giggles. Thanks!

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! That laminated technique really opens up a bunch of tools for beginners and then final product is very strong.

@akbychoice

4 жыл бұрын

Changing name to Giggles, looking forward to my new router plane. 😁

@schm4704

4 жыл бұрын

@@akbychoice 😃

Years ago i made a routerplane as a quick hack (not hag lol). I also started a playlist and added every other routerplane build i could find or found since. I'll add this video to that list too. So many ways to make a routerplane.

This is solid. Your doing what I am

@user-fl1jv9cv7z

3 жыл бұрын

Helping me improve and bring some other perspective. Love the content

My very cheap tool is a spare piece of oak flooring. One small hole drilled in it and a sharp woodscrew set for the desired depth. Scratch the cutting surface and clean it out with a normal chisel. Tilt the screw hole if you want to reach into the corners. Ideal for narrow places like hinge slots in door frames . No metal apart from a screw and no handles .

I've only started watching your stuff a couple weeks ago and I'm surprised that you're sparking more of an interest in hand-tool woodworking than even Paul Sellers. He's exceptional and I love watching him. But there's something infinitely more accessible about yours that I can't quite put my finger on. I think it's time for me to build that bench.

@chriswoods7452

2 жыл бұрын

I know this reply is late, but I was thinking the same. And I reckon Paul Sellers (who I think is brilliant btw) makes a hard skill look easy when it isnt, whereas Rex makes a skill look as easy or hard as it really is.

Great idea cutting it apart. Side note - I’ve seen wooden planes with wooden strike buttons from a dowel glued into a hole. Save some cost on the bolt and epoxy

When you said the old school name of the plane was "Hags tooth", i suddenly burst out laughing! Not because of the name, but because i finally "got" the joke as to why my great uncle called his "Janet's tooth". Janet was his first wife. Uncle Joe has been gone for 20 years and i JUST now got that he had been calling his ex-wife a hag, repeatedly and often, in his shop for decades. Thanks Rex!

Elevator bolts are cheaper than carriage bolts and have the square shoulder. It is just that the outer head is flat. They make excellent bolts for T-tracks and hold downs. Unfortunately, I could not find them locally, but found out that they are $0.30 each if you buy in a box of 100. They are 1/4 -20 and every bench tool I have uses a different sized t-bolt head. At $0.30 each,I don't mind grinding them to size. They have become a go to fastener around here.

Very nice - Thought comes to mind that the inside curve on the front side (from the original) would be easy to make if you drill a large hole through the piece and then saw off the waste. Then all you'd have to do is blend the curves to fit your grip!

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Except then you're drilling a big hole through end-grain. Much tougher than it sounds.

@jrkorman

4 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger Didn't say it would be easy, just that you (someone) could do it! 😁 I've got a couple of old chisels, no handles, that might just be the thing for a project like this. Keep up the good work!

Basically a plane can be made of a wide chisel. I had that thought a while ago and now found your video.

Love me a router plane. Love me a plane I can build myself. And, l love being able to leverage existing tools to perform more tasks. Furthermore, I have to say the technique of splitting and reassembling is inspired. Off to the shop!

I see a Mora sheath in the background at 14:30.. Looking forward to that discussion!

My thought…. Make the wedge wider and make a dado in it to fit a certain chisel. you could then make multiple wedges and use the plane with different width chisels. You could also add a thumbwheel as per Paul Sellers’ router plane to finetune the depth. What do you think?

Thanks for the video. Do you think this would work ? before cutting the block in half, Drill a hole on each side of the center kerf and run a dowel all the way through (front to back). With this, a dry fit, and a test run could be done before gluing, so any adjustment could be made. It would also secure the piece from moving while gluing, and help keep it together, especially when a wedge is tapped into place.

Strike button using a coach bolt is a brill idea. Going to fit one in my old wooden plane

I followed your video and made this project about a year ago and, well, it works as good as my fancy new traditional router (huh...?), to be honest. Tap here and tap there is just quicker for micro adjustment. I didn't use any fancy timber, just some random offcut of construction 4"x2" and an old good quality chisel that was looking a bit worn out so I got it back in shape. As for that new old router I mentioned; it's a Cowryman - traditional...but modernised, if you know what I mean. :-|

This is at least my 5th time watching this video... Seems like I go through researching many shop made router plane ideas trying to find the right one and end up here. I just gotta make it! I even have the plans due to patreon.

Great stuff Rex. I love this series, I always learn something.

I really dig that series! Thank you for investing your time in it!

Thanks Rex. I've been semi - agonizing about this for a bit. I first thought about buying a power router, but discarded that idea after I realized that it wouldn't get enough use in my shop to justify the storage space, as my shop isn't just small, it's outright tiny. I've since been trying to find a used metal router plane, but they're kind of expensive, and like I said the tool will get only occasional use. This build is my next project for sure. It's outstanding, since I can disassemble the plane into 3 pieces for storage as well.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

I think you'll be happy with this one. It's effective and easy to use. Takes up very little space.

Even simpler, but less ergonomic: Use your wooden plane, take the iron out, put your chisel in. There you have a router plane ;)

Love it and will definitely be making this. I have some old chisels I picked up at a flea market that would be perfect !!! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge Rex !!!

Thanks for sharing this. You have a lot of good ideas for making the plane without a lot of tools.

Kerfing is dope. It's a must to kerf with the Japanese saws. You could make a kerfing plane from a hacksaw blade. I think James Wright did that. The two of you are inspirational with your tool making videos!

@jrkorman

4 жыл бұрын

Making a knife wall has increased my accuracy quite a bit. Very helpful technique.

Excellent tip on the strike button!! Would never have thought about that! Thanks again for an excellent tool build!

I think it was either Paul Sellers or Wranglerstar who showed an even simpler method. Just drill a hole through a piece of wood at an angle that is slightly undersized and stick a chisel through it. It works, I tried it. Maybe not a long term solution but for when you need it like right now, it`s great.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed! I showed it in my tool tote video.

@ArikGST

4 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger Havn`t watched that video yet, I am currently watching through your library :D

Built the spoke shave. I love it. I think this is next.

Another awesome video, Rex. Thank you. A suggestion for another video that I’d find immensely helpful-when should we be using our beveled tools with the bevel down and when should we have them bevel up? Both chisels and planes. Thanks again. Love all your vids. And although your most recent hammer build could certainly be used as a weapon, I think we’d all love another vintage weapon build. 😁

Thanks Rex. Another great but very practical video.

Thanks Rex. I've actually been wanting to make one of these...

I think I'll make one of these. I've needed a router plane for awhile, and I hadn't thought of the "Split and glue back together" approach for a router. Thanks :)

I liks the classic look. I need to try one of these. thanks for the information on the strike button I was wondering what they used for it.

Fantastic, I will make one, I will try to keep to the vintage shape if I can, great video so thanks for making it.

Heya Rex! I just wanted to drop in and say thanks once again. I just wrapped up my Joiner's Mallet, thanks to your fine instruction. The mallet isn't perfect, but what the hell is? Unless, of course, one finds perfection in utility, and I'm pretty sure this thing will still be around and quite useful when the heat death of the universe takes place ;) Thank you so much, you're an absolute fucking inspiration, my guy. When my current project pays out again (any time now), I'll be showing some material love :) I Hope you and yours are hale and hearty, and that the homeschooling is going smoothly. Cheers!

Thanks for the knowledge on how to make my own Router Plane , Rex !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cutting and glueing back is brilliant. I have done this trick many times, but it did not occur to me for a moment to use it for this project. Indeed, after glueing long grain, wood breaks at a different place. But not on the glue joint.

Nice! I just watched your tool box build and I saw the PMR by Paul Sellers.

Great post, awesome tool!! Thanks Rex

Wow this is so cool I'm going to have to make one thanks for sharing

wow man ! You talk so much sense about all this for a beginner ! THANKYOU ! I have already learned more about woodwork in a couple of your videos than I have with all the other KZread videos. You make it approachable for someone who has no previous experience .Thanks again for demystifying so much ,and especially for how to achieve things without previous knowledge or expensive tools .And by the way i have subscribed to you because all your videos are so helpful.

Suggestion:- make a wooden holder for a card scraper

Nice Build Rex👍

Clever fellow. An easy and useful tool build.

Another great video from true woodcraftman. Thank you bringing back the traditionnal way to woodwork. This helps me figuring out new tools for no cost. Can I be bold and give you video suggestions? What if you would go in a hardware store, look at all kinds of modern tools there and try to make them at home. Another one would be making a full project, like a bird house, a desk, bookcase. Looking around my desk at work (dont tell my boss) a topdesk file organiser. Thanks for the great video. Cheers from Canada!!!

@trinamorrison2570

4 жыл бұрын

I second the hardware store suggestion . That would be interesting to watch.

Yes,i will make this to.thank buddy.

I did something like that mortise trick, but on a tenon. I was making a tote for my 1950's Craftsman jack plane. The original tote was made of a "space age" plastic and had a molded tenon which fit in a mortise in the plane body - no second screw like a Stanley. It is a really nice plane that I got from eBay for $20 and still had the original manual. The tenon I needed was 3/4 x 1 1/2 and 1/8 thick. But the problem I had was that I couldn't see the mortise on the plane when I mounted it, so I couldn't mark the tenon accurately. So instead, I cut another part of the stock slightly thicker than 1/8 and trimmed it to fit in the plane body dado. Once it fit, I put some glue on it and mounted the tote using the plane screw and let it dry. Perfectly aligned tenon. And as nice as that plane was, replacing the "space age" plastic tote with a nice hand made one is a big improvement.

Hagtooth! Great! I shall call mine nothing else.

I got a good laugh out of hagstooth, it's just banter m8

I really enjoy you build videos

genius strike bolt

I really enjoyed the video and bought the plans. Well worth the money. I changed the angle from 60 to 45 degrees. Maybe 60 works well for hardwood but for pine 45ish seems to work nicely. Thanks for the great content

Really Nice!!! You can make these curve easily using a table saw. I made one last week

I think most of my future woodworking will be done by powertools, but I still love your videos :)

I'm thinking a left over chunk of handrail would work great for this

Great video! Great idea, I want to try it!

Awesome video as always Rex, thank you! And such prodigious timing too--I was just about to give up on my router plane project out of frustration. Your method feels so much more doable!

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

It's really easy. Promise!

Hi Rex. I just made one of your router planes from a some scraps of 1/2 inch oak (need to be laminated together) that i found in a corner, and a 3/16 chisel I was given . I actually took my semicircular cut out right back to intersect the front mortice as far as the chisel edge, as this it makes it very easy to see the blade engage the work, and the chisel is still fully supported. It works a dream and now I need to build some something with dados so I can smooth them down... Great inspiration and explanation. Thanks for all

Fantástico trabajo felicitaciones, es muy inspirador ver maestros interesados en transmitir su conocimiento de forma tan generosa,bendiciones ,gracias.

Awesome video, Pask Makes has another great video for making a router plane as well.

Thanks for sharing that, well done!

I like your router, sure i like my elektrical router, but after i have build a old hand router, im beginning to like it more, so Thanks Rex

Your stuff is the best!

Thank you Sir.🎉

Looks nice. I plan on making that mallet very soon. I think I'll do a little carving on the sides for decoration though.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you do! I love personalized tools!

i usually just split a block i want acces to inside, when you glue it back after making a mortise the seam will be invisible

Good video, now I'll have to check out the rabbit plane video also.. both of these tools I need to build

excelente buen trabajo intentare hacer uno me hace falta algo así en el taller sal . desde argentina

Rex, I've been loving your videos! I think I've watched this one at least 3 times now. This time through I realized the half moon doesn't open up all the way to the blade opening. Is that by design? Can you see the blade beyond the opening once it's deep enough? Thanks!

I think I will actually make one of these. Thanks for the video. The only change I might make is to make the frips symmetrical from front to rear, so I can pull or push. I think my pull-strength is stronger, and even if the job is light, after a few pushed cuts, its nice to switch-up the muscles I'm using over the course of a day.

I built a router table for doing housing joints and rebates (dados and rabbets), then remembered I mostly only have time to woodwork at night, and cant use any power tools cos of the noise 🤦‍♂️so this is something I'll be making soon....s My sister wants a six board chest for christmas!

Great Video Thnx Rex THAT is what i was looking for I looked on ebay and try to hunt a routerplane without get in trouble with my wife $$$ Iam a beginner and that technic seems i can deal with Thank you

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

She cannot fault you for this one!

@stevetobias4890

4 жыл бұрын

Also the satisfaction of building your own tools cannot be beaten

Great video Rex 🙂

I am wondering about the steep angle of the cutter. It is just like the antique version so it must be all right. But on wooden and metal planes like you showed at the beginning the angle is 35-40 degrees. And the Paul Sellers "poor man's router plane" is also closer to 45 degrees.