Making up the sellers kit

[Pabs]

Ordered a Sellers router plane kit in March 23 cost 35pounds plus P&P. It sat there jeering at me for the past 8months while I built up the courage and woodworkshopmanship(?) to tackle it.

Deep breath and I set to.

1. Chose some beech from an offcut which had been rescued from a firewood pile. Trimmed beech to rough dimensions and also dimension a bit for the upstand peice. Shaped it using a shinto but I did use a bandsaw to rip the upstand at the bedding angle as not quite there yet with accurate handsaw ripcuts.

Chop out recess for iron

Leave a little proud (this haunts me later)

Checking the angle

Dry fit using blind pegging upstand to base

Here i realised i had cut things short and didnt have enough of the beech left over so thanks @Simo for selling me some walnut



And I also extended the sole / body with another bit

Then bit of rasping and lots of filing and sanding and then started to fit the metalwork using a guide like Sellers suggests.
Here I realised I'd taken too much off the face of the upstand when planing and the iron no longer stood proud meaning the brace /retention bar wouldn't work. I turned once again to the walnut and planed a very thin bedding strip to line the iron bed.

 

[Pabs]

Then making the knobs etc!
Used a drill as a makeshift lathe to turn the knobs



Verdict - works surprisingly well!

 

[paulrbarnard]

Then making the knobs etc!
Used a drill as a makeshift lathe to turn the knobs
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Verdict - works surprisingly well!

Looks great!

 

[Pabs]

Thanks Paul. Just got to figure the best finish for it now, thinking maybe osmo raw matte, or shellac. Unsure

 

[Jacob]

Thanks Paul. Just got to figure the best finish for it now, thinking maybe osmo raw matte, or shellac. Unsure

I put linseed on everything. Works well and saves having to think.