If you follow my blog, you know that I don’t like the electric planer. It doesn’t seem safe to me, and it’s not easy to plane strips with it. It’s very difficult to leave the surface flat, and it also takes a lot of practice to avoid taking too much off at the beginning of the strip, leaving a typical small rebate.
Since some of you asked how to attach the electric wood planer to the table, I decided to try and see what I could do. It wasn’t very difficult to attach the electric planer to a board, and the result of planing with it using it as a table planer is fantastic, I have to admit.
Additionally, this wood planer is quite easy to use (of course, always keeping fingers and clothing away from the blades. This small machine will not give us warnings or second chances). They say there’s a fine line between love and hate, but in this case, it’s more like an afternoon of work. I thought I had gained a good tool for the workshop, but it’s actually two good tools because, as I will explain in another video, in addition to using it as a table planer, it can also be used as a thickness planer.
Making a hole in the board so that the blades and metal plate are in contact with it and adjusting the height of a wooden block to place under the handle to leave the electric planer at exactly 90 degrees is simpler than it may seem. The only thing is to be careful not to overdo it. The best option is to gradually lower the hole in the board and the wooden block, checking the planer’s position as many times as necessary. It really isn’t necessary to carve the shape of the handle into the wooden block as shown in the video, just lowering it so the handle is at the exact height would be enough to adjust this wood planer.
As you can see in the video, the trigger remains activated, so it’s very important to use it with a safety switch. I use one that I already have on this table, which you can see here.
In the next video, we’ll see how to make some push sticks to use it more safely, and we’ll also see how to use it as a thickness planer for wood. Meanwhile, at the beginning of this post, I’ve left the video on how to attach it to the board.