Without a hand router this could be accomplished just using a chisel. What I have shown up to implementing the hand router is the way I would proceed. Then I would continue to depth with the chisel bevel down and jigging the chisel on the bevel. Checking depth progress and practice will produce a sufficient dodo.Yxoc wrote:Jack - Thankyou, that was a comprehensive explanation and well illustrated. I had imagined them being done by knifing the lines and then working to depth with the router plane but wasting out with the chisel first is much more efficient.
regards
Derek
The cross grain dodoes I will handel slightly different since the first run across will not break the wood fibers properly. My initial plan is to knife the outline and with a chisel cut carefully to the knife line, then continue carrying the knife line down with a paring chisel. I will work down with the hand router when I have sufficient depth established but these will be shallower so they should go quicker.
Jack