Woodpeckers Rout-N-Plane Bench Top Board Mill delivers a safe, easy and fun way to mill end-grain cutting boards and other odd-shaped or highly figured stock that you just can’t feed into a planer. Just fix your board to a flat table at least 22-1/2″ wide, adjust the Rout-N-Plane height just above the board and set your router depth of cut to shave a little off the top. In minutes you’ll have a flat board ready for finish sanding.
Rout-N-Plane offers convenience and flexibility you can’t get with shop-built sleds. It adjusts in seconds to safely guide any router across your board and can handle thicknesses from 3/4″ to a full 3″. It works on boards up to 15″ wide (based on a 6″ router base with a 1″diameter cutter). And length is only limited by how much table you have.
While we focused of end grain cutting boards when we engineered Rout-N-Plane, it turns out they’re just the beginning. Think of a twisted plank wider than your jointer with grain too beautiful to cut up and glue into a panel. Fix it to a piece of MDF with shims and hotmelt glue and surface it flat with Rout-N-Plane. The same thing can be done with 15″ and under natural edge slabs. If it’s under 3″ thick and narrower than 15″, you can level it with Rout-N-Plane.