Several weeks ago I bought a new workshop tool. The company had a scheme whereby employees could award recognition points to their coworkers for a job well done, which could be traded for a gift or reward of their choosing. I used the points I had received to buy this machine.
Known as an electric planer/ thicknesser, it is used for planing the surface of wood to a smooth finish, or for reducing the thickness of wooden planks to a desired size. The guide at the top can be angled to plane the wood surfaces at any desired angle.
I have already used this during my next knife project, with extremely satisfying results, but I will tell more about that in the next blog post coming soon.
Enjoy the
photos!
View from the front. The wood you see is on the exit side of the planer table. The cutting blades are below the safety guard in the centre. The black pipe is connected to the dust extractor.
View from the left side. You can see the area below the planer table where the wood is fed through the thicknesser section. For this function the rotating blades are above the wood, which is fed in from this side.
View from beneath. You can see a plank that has been fed through the thicknesser. This is the exit side. The panel that the wood slides across can be raised and lowered in small increments until the wood reaches the desired thickness.
Before and after photos of the same piece of Beech wood.
