Bosch Home and Garden Electric Planer PHO 1500 (550 W, Planing width 82 mm, Weight 2.4 kg, Cutting depth 0 – 1.5 mm, in carton packaging)

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This means you can switch them round and get double the working life before you need to re-sharpen them. It’s wide enough to take off the bottom of a tight-fitting door and join the edge of the most common timbers. I’ve always been a fan of Ryobi’s GripZone technology, the rubber over-moulding won’t slip out of your hand easily. Bosch planers are powerful and precise, offering accuracy and ease of use even throughout demanding tasks. The best electric planers should be powerful yet precise enough to shave fine slithers off a piece of wood with minimum vibration and noise.

If you want to spend a bit extra for a planer without annoying power cables, the Makita DKP180Z is for you. Cutting annoying cords has set professional carpenters and savvy DIYers free to plane wherever they want. It’s built at a comfortable angle and has plenty of soft rubberised plastic to help keep vibrations to a minimum.The woodrazor single-blade system is unique to Bosch planers and allows for fast and easy blade changes without the need for time consuming adjustment, a great feature for daily use. The GHO 18V-LI Professional also includes features such as dual chip extraction, LI-ION technology, and Speed Selection. They’re also more expensive, so think hard about how much you’re going to need to use the tool first. Corded tools like planers need longer cables, so you don’t have to get out the extension cord all the time.

Harry Duncton is a jack of all trades with experience ranging from carpentry and furniture restoration to tree surgery and gardening.The standard 50mm dust port will fit most extractors and works well to remove almost everything ejected. As a professional, a lot is expected of you: speed, reliability, competence, endurance – in short: excellent results. There’s one thing you can count on in woodworking- if the tool is loud, spins fast and removes a lot of material, there’s going to be a lot of sawdust. Thanks to powerful 18V battery systems, even hard-working tools such as planers can be used “off-grid”. Cutting speeds are generally slower and they’re heavy when high Ah batteries are installed, however.