Router plane

A router plane is a hand plane used in woodworking for smoothing out sunken panels, and more generally for all depressions below the general surface of the pattern.^[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 has largely been supplanted by the electrical router and shaper, but retains limited application.

Router plane

Router plane being used to plane a groove
Other names	Old woman's tooth Depthing router Granny's tooth[1]
Classification	Woodworking hand plane

A wooden router plane

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.