Gary: First, I want to thank you for your frank, direct teaching on the site and in videos. Your experience and encouraging tone are so welcome!
Want to scribe and mortise a brass strike plate on door jamb…3/4″ wide, about 3.5″ long, 1/16 thick…pretty basic. I have a small 271 router plane (1/4″ cutter) which I have confidence in. I am planning on just using plate as template, knifing and paring edges. Plate has round ends…so seems logical to tap lightly with a 3/4″ dia.gouge, pare for nice clean lines… I got a scolding from Woodcraft sales fellow…says I should create a jig for laminate router with stops, etc. Seems like too much work for one task. How would you accomplish?