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A portable thickness planer. A thickness planer consists of three elements: a cutter head which contains the cutting knives; a set of rollers which draw the board through the machine; and a table which is adjustable relative to the cutter head to control the resultant thickness of the board.
If the thickness planer is of a suitable design, movement of the planer table due to feed roller pressure can be recorded using a dial indicator. The pattern of movement can be analyzed to verify that the cause of snipe is properly understood. The photograph at right shows such an arrangement using a small combination jointer/planer.
The use of this term probably arises from the name of a type of hand plane, the jointer plane, which is also used primarily for this purpose. "Planer" is the normal term in the UK and Australia for what is called a "jointer" in North America, where the former term refers exclusively to a thickness planer.
Power planers One or two sided stationary rotary, thickness planers in a shop and up to a four-sided planer (timber sizer) at a mill. Hand held rotary power planers up to twelve inches wide. Chain mortiser; A few modern framers use computer numerical control (CNC) machines to cut joinery. Chain saw
Craftsman No. 5 jack plane A hand plane in use. A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools used for the same types of larger tasks, but are unsuitable for fine-scale planing, where a miniature hand plane is used.
These machines generally have three motors, one for the table saw, one for the shaper, and one shared by the thickness planer/jointer and mortiser. European combination machines are geared for the serious hobbyist or professional woodworker or cabinet maker.
The term planer may refer to several types of carpentry tools, woodworking machines or metalworking machine tools. Plane (tool), a hand tool used to produce flat surfaces by shaving the surface of the wood; Thickness planer (North America) or thicknesser (UK and Australia), a woodworking machine for making boards of even thickness
[clarification needed] As are router tables, cost-saving adaptations of hand-held routers mounted to comparatively light-duty dedicated work tables. The wood being fed into a moulder is commonly referred to as either stock or blanks. The spindle may be raised and lowered relative to the shaper's table, and rotates between 3,000 and 10,000 rpm ...