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How to access this tool

Technician only

Please speak with a technician if your making project requires a red tool.

Key information

Red tools can only be used by technicians. Please drop into the workshop during our opening hours and speak with a technician if your making project requires a red tool.

An electric planer is a woodworking tool used to trim timber to an even profile, or to trim certain areas down to a shallower profile. It is a handheld device encasing a rolling blade that cuts as it is pushed along a work piece.

Please note

No metals can be used with this tool.

What can I use this tool for?

Trimming profiles from wooden lengths to a given thickness or shape, particularly projects that are odd configurations or too large to be fed through machines.

Materials used with this tool

  • Woods only - No green wood

What training do I need to use this tool?

The induction for the electric planer is by arrangement with a technician.

If you would like to use the electric planer, come to the workshop during opening hours and work out a time to be inducted with one of the technical staff.

Technical specifications

Specification Details
Planing Width 65 mm
Planing Depth 0 - 4 mm
Maximum Rebate Depth 23mm