Woodpeckers Router Plane

[RichColvin]

Woodpeckers came out with a new router plane which has a really innovative design for the cutting blade.  

https://www.woodpeck.com/woodpeckers-router-plane.html

I have an idea about how the blade could be held in a 3d-printed holder which could then be held in the SE-77.  If you have one of these, please contact me:  I'd like to work with you on this idea. 

[RickKrung]

Looks like a really cool and useful tool.  As long as woodworkers have been dealing with that sort of need, why has this not been invented before?

[MikeK]

Veritas has been making a router plane with removable blades for years.  The Veritas version is less expensive than the Woodpeckers version.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/hand-tools/planes/router/52609-veritas-router-plane

[rolsen]

Router plane iron is also very simple to sharpen freehand on a diamond stone (or other). Veritas is a go-to router plane these days, as vintage ones have gotten a Paul Sellers increase 

[WimSpi]

Looks like a really cool and useful tool.  As long as woodworkers have been dealing with that sort of need, why has this not been invented before?

As a carpenter, I worked with a router plane in the 1970s. It was made entirely of wood.

Adjusting the depth was easy. You placed the router plane on the wood. And the depth of the groove was marked on the side of the wood. You then lowered the chisel until it touched this depth mark and tightened it with a nut. That's all there was to it.
If the groove was deeper, you set it to multiple depths.

The centuries-old name for this plane in Dutch was "Horletoet."
But if you translate the current name, "grondschaaf," into English, it becomes "ground plane."

What I find more important than a very precise adjustment of the chisel is a heavy mass. Then it pushes the plane more easily through the wood when encountering resistance from the wood.