Planers - Page 5 of 7

Easy knife-changing system designed to speed up planer maintenance

When you need to put a short piece of wood through the thickness planer, here's how to eliminate snipe at each end of the workpiece. Cut 1-in.-wide wood strips about…

I use a piece of 3/4-in. plywood over the bed of my thickness planer when I plane thin boards, to avoid lowering the head so tightly. This fixture also reduces…

Here's a simple way to get an infinitely variable feed rate on a Parks Model 97 thickness planer, without altering any part of the machine. Simply install a hand crank…

Because feeding short boards through the planer may result in snipes and even kickbacks, the operation should be avoided. But when the job is necessary, here's a way to make…

Learn the four-square technique for milling lumber

For small shops, these machines offer good value and performance, but consider features before you buy

Busy production shops usually need industrial-sized or mid-sized thickness planers, but smaller woodshops and home hobbyists may find that a benchtop planer will handles most jobs that they undertake. More than…

A sled lets you use just your planer to mill lumber to any thickness.

This discontinued 13-in. planer featured eight depth stop settings and a dust hood. It was replaced with the AP1301 Surface Planer.