I am designing a toolbox with drawers, and one of my wish list items is a large Veritas router plane. I want to make sure the toolbox can accommodate the size of the plane, but I can’t find any indication of how tall the plane is.
If anyone has this plane and wouldn’t mind letting me know how high a drawer would need to be to fit it, it would be greatly appreciated!
Charlie
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I've just come out of the shed where I've been routing teeny grooves to make teeny drawers for a small cabinet, so the router plane is handy. So is a ruler - but it's metric as I'm not in favour of royalty and empires. :-)
The unadorned Veritas large router plane is 95mm tall when sat on its sole. If you fit the fence and leave it on, your toolbox will need at least 125mm of height as the projection below the sole of the fence and its attachment knob add 30mm to the overall height.
It's 215mm at its widest (width across the handles) but the fence mounted doesn't add anything to the width. It would need more height if stored with its handles top and bottom.
It's 110mm front to back although you can reduce that to 92mm if you take the locking knob out as it sticks out of the back of the router. That still needs the same height stored that way up (front edge down, back edge up) as it would need storeded with its sole down, fence off and adjustment knob up.
Lataxe
Thank you so much! This is very helpful.
Best of luck with your cabinet build!
Charlie
Hello Charlie.
The small chest of 3 drawers is very small - a practice piece of around a foot wide by 8 inches deep by 8 inches high with it's case made of left-over bits of Honduras mahogany (very beautiful grain) joined at the corners with 1/2" proud & chamfered finger joints. Two drawer dividers and three drawers of sapele are all held together with housing joints that will also be pinned with 1/8" diameter dowels.
The Veritas router made all the housing joints: those for the drawer dividers and sides are 1/4" wide & deep whilst the slots for the 1/8" thick ply drawer bottoms are 1/8" deep. All glued up with hide glue.
The Veritas cutter head for inlay is, with the router plane fence, making the parallel cuts to define these housing grooves, which are then hogged out with either the large router plane and a 5mm wide blade or the teeny-weeny Veritas router with a 1/8" bit.
A very useful tool, then, a hand router. But I have to admit that it takes about 10X as long with a hand router as it would with a router table to make these housings. :-) Still, for retired olephart time is no longer money and play is much better than work.
https://www.leevalley.com/en-gb/shop/tools/hand-tools/planes/maintenance-and-accessories/69876-inlay-cutter-head-for-veritas-router-plane
https://www.leevalley.com/en-gb/shop/tools/hand-tools/miniature-tools/planes/67814-veritas-miniature-router-plane
Lataxe
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