Router plane
Woodworking hand tool
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A router plane is a hand plane tool used in the field of woodworking for smoothing out sunken panels, and more generally for all depressions below the general surface of the lumber.[1] It planes the bottoms of recesses to a uniform depth and can work into corners that otherwise can only be reached with a chisel. The tool is used by hand tool woodworkers. Power tool woodworkers often use the electrical router for similar work.
- Old woman's tooth
- Depthing router
- Granny's tooth[1]
 Router plane being used to plane a groove | |
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This replacement occurred in 1906 with the invention of the first portable power router which was patented by George Kelley and marketed by the Kelley Electric Machine Company. [2]These early electrical routers were heavier than the ones today.
One of the first times a router plane shows up in recorded history is in the book Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary according to google n-gram. This book was written by Edward Henry Knight a mechanical expert in the 1800's.[3]
Further reading
- Wynn, Scott (2010). Woodworker's Guide to Handplanes: How to Choose, Set Up, and Master the Most Useful Planes for Today's Workshop. East Petersburg, Pennsylvania, USA: Fox Chapel Publishing. ISBN 978-1-56523-453-6. OCLC 606234673.
