Thickness Planers - Page 2 of 3

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

Easy knife-changing system designed to speed up planer maintenance

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

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…

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…

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…

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

The Craftsman 13-in. planer features a built-in dust collector and a carriage that raises up or down with the flip of a lever.

Pro-Tech’s 13-in. planer features reversible knives that can be resharpened.