A router plane is a
hand plane used in
woodworking
Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.
History
Along with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked b ...
for smoothing out sunken panels, and more generally for all depressions below the general surface of the pattern.
It planes the bottoms of recesses to a uniform depth and can work into corners that otherwise can only be reached with a
chisel
A chisel is a hand tool with a characteristic Wedge, wedge-shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade. A chisel is useful for carving or cutting a hard material such as woodworking, wood, lapidary, stone, or metalworking, metal.
Using a chi ...
. The tool has largely been supplanted by the
electrical router and
shaper, but retains limited application.
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