003 Router Plane, Fourth-Generation, One-Piece 8mm HSS Cutter

This is solid and a great buy at the price. Works great. Router planes are very simple, so it just needs to be flat (it is) and hold the blade securely (it does). The rest of the performance is from how sharp you keep it and how you use it. I think the advancement screw is solid enough, and it is made from common parts you can replace if you are at all handy. Everything is secure and takes force pretty well. One advantage to this model is that you can use square stock to make custom width cutters by cutting a notch for the advancing screw--very easy and saves money. You can use something like HSS this way if you desired. Also the straight square cutter stock makes this very straightforward to sharpen, easier than bent designs. So a good choice for beginners. Simple all around, which is a plus. Router planes are best for cutting slots for shelves or rabbets for boxes/cases. Very good for small lap-type joints as well. If you are good with a chisel you can reserve it for the finishing cuts. I will keep using this model for a while and given the simplicity of this kind of tool, I wonder if I'll ever really need to upgrade.

I was looking for something to help speed up the "grounding " step of my panel relief carvings. Looked at several makes and models of hand routers and settled on the .003. Out of the box it performed like a througbred. After most of the background wood has been removed the .003 was used to level and clean the areas up. It performed beautifully. Cutting tissue thin curly chips. It cut with and against grain, also cross grain very well, without need for sanding. Cuts were made at 3/8inch depths without chatter or floating of the tool. The total depth of the 8mm blade could be extended to 1inch if needed. Very well engineered and constructed and worth the price. This tool is going to get alot of enjoyable work in the future. Unless abused, this is a generations, hand-me-down tool.

I am not enough of a woodworker to spend over $150 on a premium brand router plane and this tool gets the job done... for the most part. It is rather small, so if you are routing out an area more than a couple of inches wide in any direction you will have trouble keeping the sole registered firmly on the work. But MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, the sole is not stainless steel... I believe it is aluminum. This is a problem because it leaves dark smudges on the surfaces around the cutting area. I suspect that even if you polish the sole it would still be an issue, since aluminum will oxidize so quickly. The best solution (apart from fabricating a replacement sole from iron or steel) would probably be to attach a thin hardwood sole to the existing base. There are countersunk holes on the bottom of the base to attach the handles which could be used for this, or you could drill new ones. This would also allow for a wider sole, making the plane easier to use for routing out larger areas. One last thing: The thumbscrew to lock the blade in place is not great, very difficult to get it as tight as it needs to be. Luckily the manufacturer is aware of this issue and now ships a replacement screw with a locking lever. The lever has a button on it so once it is tight it can be swung around to whatever angle you like.

Originally I was a bit dismayed when I opened the package and saw the size I have big hands, make a fist and that's about it. But that's on my for not double checking the conversion. HOWEVER, this little thing works great. The blade was sharp right out of the box, didn't need to tune it (smooth out and level the bottom plate). Works excellent. I don't have dado blades on my table saw (nor do I own a band saw), so most times I make multiple pass on the table saw to remove waste wood when making lap joints and dovetails. Which works but it's not completely smooth, so that leaves chiseling and or sanding to smooth out the grooves. *note I do own a large router, but I keep it firmly attached to it's routing table and I hate taking it out to use it for a few minutes and then have to put it back in* This manual plane does the job quite nicely. Really happy with this purchase. Great work guys.

If you think you're going to simply drag this across the workpiece and get a perfect dado slot, well, no. But... if you mark the sides of the slot with a wheel gauge, and chisel a beginning knife edge on the slot, then you can go to work. Very gently follow the groove and GRADUALLY LOWER THE DEPTH, then you can get a nice result. I look at this as more of a cleanup tool than a slot-maker. It's well made and sturdy. I make add a larger base to the bottom for stability, but highly recommend.

This is the first router plane I've ever owned (or used), and I love it!!! It came out of the box super sharp and ready to go! Even without any experience using a routing plane, I was able to figure it out- it's a pretty simple device. I recommend using the "alternative" tightening screw provided- it gives a more ergonomic feel to tightening the blade. I only have a few small complaints: First, the depth screw has no markings on it- it's hard to tell how deep you are cutting. This seems to be common in router planes, though. I just got around this by marking the blade with a marker! Second, the hole around the blade is a little larger that I'd like- it makes it easy to accidentally get the plane out of flatness near the edges of the board. (i.e., I was frequently attacking the board at an upward angle, and exiting the board at a downward angle, until I realized what was happening). But seriously, the complaints are minor- I really like this tool! I look forward to cutting some quick and consistent rabbets and dados with it! See pictures of my first "messing around" cuts with the router.

Ordered it Friday, came today on Sunday night via Amazon delivery. Opened it up and swapped out the wing nut for the locking bar screw (you can get more leverage on it) since I read people had issues with this design and the blade slipping due to the wing nut. Secondly, looking at the adjustment screw and the gap between the screw's adjustment knob and the top of the blade's bar itself, another way to make sure that IF it slips still, the nut is resting against the bottom of the blade bar's opening gap so that the blade has nowhere to go -- it'll be pressed against the nut anyways. I did that and immediately went to the garage where my dull dado blade had left really uneven cuts into some plywood. After adjusting the router plane, it easily cleaned up the dado channel. I was pretty happy with it. Yes, it's pretty small. So I actually just used it with one hand, and it worked just fine.

It is small but plenty sturdy and came with a fairly sharp cutter out of the box which is nice. The adjustment mechanism has a lot of backlash, so it was inconvenient for me to fine adjust but certainly possible. Some washers will sort it out, but it'd be nice to have a little closer tolerances out of the box. It'd also be nice to have a depth stop, even if it was an optional accessory.

Die kanadischen und amerikanischen Nobelmarken sind ja zur Zeit ein Totalausfall. Also Alternative gesucht und ... gefunden!!! Der Grundhobel ist sauber verarbeitet und plan. Ein Abziehen der Hobelsohle ist aus meiner Sicht nicht nötig. Die Klinge ist gebrauchsfertig geschliffen und lässt sich sicher festsetzen. Zum Festsetzen der Klinge gibt es eine Flügelschraube oder einen Schnellspanner. Ich nutze den Schnellspanner und bin damit hoch zufrieden. Bei einer ungünstigen Stellung einfach den Hebel zu sich ziehen und den Hebel in eine bessere Position schwenken - loslassen - fertig. Das Einstellen der Schneidtiefe ist unproblematisch, die Spindel arbeitet recht sauber. Tiefe im Vorschub einstellen und das bauartspezifische Spiel durch leichtes Rückdrehen der Stellmutter herausnehmen. Ich habe mir auch die weiteren Klingenbreiten angeschafft und auch schon die 8-mm-Klinge geschliffen. Hierbei gab es ebenfalls keine negativen Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Die Holzknäufe sind aus meiner Sicht sauber gearbeitet und gut befestigt. Die senkrechte Anordnung stört mich nicht. Nach meinem Empfinden lassen sie sich gut fassen und lassen es somit zu, den Hobel sicher zu führen - auch bei längeren Nuten. Die Baugröße des Hobels deckt bei mir gut 99 % aller Arbeiten ab, wofür ich einen Grundhobel nutze (z. B. Nacharbeiten von ausgestemmten Nuten). Bei normaler Pflege mit handelsüblichen Ölen oder Wachsen, die für diesen Zweck angeboten werden, gleitet der Hobel stets leicht über das Holz und Korrosion ist nicht auszumachen. Fazit: Ich bin mit dem Grundhobel sehr zufrieden. Er ist eine echte Alternative zu den nordamerikanischen Metallkörperhobeln der YouTube-Influencer. Viel Spaß mit dem Grundhobel 🙂‼️

Voici le rabot qu'il vous faut avec plusieurs tailles de lames, il est de très bonne qualité et fait un travail de précision..rien a dire...Robuste avec un réglage facile je recommande à 100%

Para los que aman trabajar a mano la madera, o quieres dar ese detallado, esta es la herramienta. Exceltente funcion, no se requiere experiencia, y bien lista para trabajar.

I had always wanted one of these but never wanted to drop the cash for one. I treated myself to an early Christmas present. I had purchased many hand tools and expected this tool to have problems that i would have to learn to work around. I was so surprised when I got it, it was great. The construction is solid and comfortable. The blade is super sharp out of the box. I got to using it and have used it for a straight 16 hours and I am addicted to it. It's easy to adjust. I recommend playing with the adjustment on some scrap wood until you learn the "tricks" but I would buy another. I am most impressed by the blade. It's still razor sharp and the adjustment does not move due to it's design. I see many years of good use with this tool. They did include an alternate quick lock for the blade however I prefer the butterfly nut as the quick lock goes lower than the plane of the wood. I imagine I could grind the end a little to fix it, but it doesn't take away from the functionality of it. Get this tool.

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