Flat, square, to thickness · review
A €1,098 planer whose listing publishes a part number and a barcode — and which costs €2,017 in Britain.
The end of it A real workshop machine sold with no specification and an enormous price spread. Ask for numbers, then shop the border.
Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
Part number HOB260ECO_230V, barcode 9120058373749, brand Holzmann. That is the entire published specification. There is no feature list, no planing width, no thicknessing height, no motor rating, no table material and no weight.
The suffix _230V is the only technical information on the page, and it is genuinely useful: Holzmann sells the same machines in single-phase and three-phase forms, and the difference decides whether the machine can be switched on in an ordinary workshop. This one is the 230 V version.
Everything else has to be asked for. At €1,098 that is not a minor gap — it is the whole basis on which a planer is chosen.
Snipe is the shallow dip a thicknesser cuts at the start and the end of a board — a few hundredths of a millimeter, over the last hundred millimeters or so. It happens because the board is held by two rollers in the middle of the cut and by only one at each end, so it lifts fractionally into the cutter.
No thicknesser in this price range eliminates it. The ones that manage it best have longer tables, adjustable rollers, or a head lock. The practical answer is the same on all of them: feed a sacrificial board nose-to-tail with the real one, or cut your stock 150 mm (5.91 in) over-length and trim the ends afterwards.
€1,098 in Germany, €1,307 in Italy, €1,329 in Spain, €1,450 in France, €2,017 in Britain. Same reference, same barcode, and a British buyer paying €919 more than a German one for a machine neither of them has been given a specification for.
That gap is larger in absolute terms than any other on this page, and it is larger than the entire price of the Scheppach HMS1070 above. Not sold on amazon.com.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Supply | 230 V, from the part number suffix |
|---|---|
| Part number | HOB260ECO_230V |
| Planing width | Not published on this listing |
| Motor rating | Not published on this listing |
| Amazon reference | B01EL5M7AU (identical on 5 markets) |
| EAN | 9120058373749 |
From the part number itself, which reads HOB260ECO_230V. That suffix is how Holzmann distinguishes single-phase from three-phase versions of the same machine, and it is the only electrical information on the listing. It is worth having: a 400 V machine cannot be plugged into a domestic socket, and readers of a Holzmann listing should always check that suffix first.
We do not know. The reference and the barcode are identical, so it is the same machine. On a difference of over €900 the only sensible advice is to price it in more than one market before ordering, which is what the button on this page does.
Not without asking for the planing width, the thicknessing height and the motor rating in writing first. At €1,098 those three numbers are the difference between a machine that suits your work and one that does not, and the page does not contain them.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
8.2/ 10
A real workshop machine sold with no specification and an enormous price spread. Ask for numbers, then shop the border.
A buyer who has already seen this machine and needs a European price check
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
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