Combiplaner-wood Planer

a machine for cutting flat surfaces, having a cutting tool supported by an overhead frame beneath which the work slides back and forth.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.planer (plural planers) A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.a machine with a cutting tool that makes repeated horizontal strokes across the surface of a workpiece: used to cut flat surfaces into metal. 2. a machine for planing wood, esp one in which the cutting blades are mounted on a rotating drum.This is essential when you are working with large projects, wood slabs, or even intricate glue-ups. You may be able to flatten one face of a board with a belt sander or hand plane but without a planer, it will be near impossible to have parallel surfaces, A smoothing plane is a type of bench plane that is used in woodworking before the scraping and sanding processes. Other planing tools are commonly available.