Very interesing planer
#16
i almost bought one of those Hitachi units about 10 years back or so. I've heard of a fella (maybe even a Wn'er, memory isn't serving too well today) that makes mantle pieces with one of these. The surface is finish ready from this machine and has that baby butt smooth ™ surface which you get from a very well tuned handplane. Wicked cool, but in the luxury tool class for most.

I haven't seen this version before, but it's a newer design on the older units - looks like they improved several aspects also - including infeed/outfeed capacity.

Shavings are cool too
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Michael
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#17
I was thinking that would be the final face. No sanding needed.. in fact sanding might wreck the surface ..
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#18
Indeed Rick, that's what I recall the mantle / Japanese architecture guy doing with his machine. Those cool japanese garden sculptures (sorry, I'm a noob, where's Stu when you need him? <grin>) are beautifully simple and there is no such thing as 'too exact' in Japanese carpentry
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Michael
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#19
Delta had one too - called a Uniplane.

One was for sale not too long ago in ATL for $200-$300.

It has a vertical blade and looks just like a meat slicer to me.


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The uniplane is not the same animal.  It used a rotary disk with a small cutter that spun around as the wood was pushed through against a fence.

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