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Tools: Planer Advice
By:Gordon Snapp
Date: 12/18/2002, 10:01 pm

Does anyone have any experience with a Delta TP300 Shopmaster 12" Portable Planer? It's about the cheapest planer I've found. Delta seems like a good brand to me, but I've seen the planer going for $195. Is it any good? I would be buying it to reduce strips to a uniform 1/4" thickness. Would this machine be able to handle it? Any thoughts? (I've never owned a planer.)

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Tools: Planer Advice
Gordon Snapp -- 12/18/2002, 10:01 pm
Re: Tools: Planer Advice *LINK*
Dave Houser -- 12/19/2002, 8:32 pm
Re: Tools:Planer-Makes use of recycled lumber
Scott Ferguson -- 12/19/2002, 2:31 pm
Re: Tools:Planer-Makes use of recycled lumber
Chad Hanson -- 12/19/2002, 2:46 pm
I've got the Dewalt, too.
Brian Nystrom -- 12/20/2002, 1:55 pm
Re: Tools: Planer Advice
Jim Kozel -- 12/19/2002, 8:20 am
Re: Tools: Planer Advice - warning!!!
Roy Morford -- 12/19/2002, 11:52 am
Re: Tools: Planer Advice - warning!!!
warrren -- 12/19/2002, 1:09 pm
I gotta' know...
Brian Nystrom -- 12/19/2002, 12:46 pm
Re: I gotta' know... *Pic*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/19/2002, 9:37 pm
Re: I gotta' know...
Liz Leedham -- 12/20/2002, 8:49 am
and if ya gotta know more . . . OT *Pic*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/20/2002, 7:56 pm
Re: I gotta' know...She Who Must Be Obeyed *NM*
Roy Morford -- 12/19/2002, 12:58 pm
I used to have a SWTSMBO...
Brian Nystrom -- 12/19/2002, 1:09 pm
SWMBO wants *another* boat!
Travis Kinchen -- 12/19/2002, 5:41 pm
Re: SWMBO wants *another* boat!
Brian Nystrom -- 12/20/2002, 1:52 pm
Re: Tools: Planer Advice
Bobby Curtis -- 12/19/2002, 7:35 am
How much are you going to use this tool? *Pic*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/18/2002, 11:42 pm
Until I owned a planer...
Brian Nystrom -- 12/19/2002, 12:44 pm
Re: Tools: Planer Advice
warrren -- 12/18/2002, 10:40 pm
Re: Tools: Planer Advice
Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge -- 12/18/2002, 10:24 pm
Re: Tools: Planer Advice
Randy Oswald -- 12/19/2002, 3:54 pm