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A thickness planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a thicknesser or in North America as a planer) is a woodworking machine to trim boards to a consistent thickness throughout their length. This machine transcribes the desired thickness using the downside as a reference / index.
Also called a thickness planer or thicknesser. A machine used to reduce the thickness of boards. plank Any piece of timber that is flat, elongated, ...
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.
Durden and Co. [1] commenced business as general engineers to the automotive industry in 1948. The founder Frank Reginald Durden produced his first woodworking machine, a thickness planner, in 1951.
Thicknesser or Thickness planer; Round pole milling machine; Round pole sanding machine; Panel Line Woodworking machines. These machines are used in large-scale ...
Some combination machines run all of their functions from a single motor; others may use more than one. Cutter heads are often shared: for example a jointer-thicknesser may use the same cutter head for both functions. The machines rely upon well thought-out designs which allow the user to switch from one function to another easily.
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 .
Thickness planer (North America) or thicknesser (UK and Australia), a woodworking machine for making boards of even thickness Planer (metalworking) , a metalworking machine-tool having a reciprocating work table and a stationary cutting tool