Plough & Router Planes

Plough and router planes handle joinery work that a bench plane cannot touch. A plough plane cuts a groove of a set width and depth along the grain, most often for drawer bottoms and panel grooves, while a router plane registers off the surrounding surface to create a second surface accurately parallel to it, ideal for cleaning up the bottom of housings and trenches or truing tenon cheeks.

We stock plough and router planes from Quangsheng, including models developed exclusively for Workshop Heaven, alongside Clifton and Mujingfang for those who prefer a different build or budget.

Within the range you will find:

• Plough planes, for cutting grooves and small rebates along the grain, typically supplied with a set of cutters to cover common widths
• Router planes, for levelling the bottom of housings and trenches with a broad square edged cutter, or fine-tuning tenon cheeks and other joinery to a precise depth

Both tools reward a little patience in setup but repay it many times over in accuracy, giving you a clean, dust-free alternative to router bits and jigs for joinery that needs to be right rather than just close. Every plane comes with our lifetime guarantee and the same honest advice we are known for. If you are unsure which cutters or widths suit your work, get in touch and we will help you choose.