(any advice for making custom hand planes?)

Thanks all for the invaluable advices.
I see most (or all?) of the professionals here use a heavy duty spindler router on a table, with custom cutters. However, the total expense for a table, a heavy duty spindler router, plus a two or three custom cutters seems too high for the expected output of an amateur maker. I don't expect to make more than two or three harpsichords more.

So I will reject "model" routers, as per Michael advice, and try to make a custom plane by myself (and of course any advice would be welcome).
Should I not succeed, I will follow the table-router-with-custom-cutters route.

Best regards,
Domenico
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