Flat, square, to thickness · review
The only machine on this page with cast-iron tables and a 2,800 W motor — and the only one that publishes every figure that matters.
The end of it The machine the other planers here are compromises against. Price it against a year of buying pre-planed stock.
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.
2,800 W, 260 mm (10.2 in) planing width, 6,500 min⁻¹ cutterhead, 3 mm (0.12 in) maximum depth of cut, cast-iron tables, surface planing and thicknessing, part number 114026100.
That is more published detail than every other planer on this page put together, and it is why we can write about this machine properly.
3 mm (0.12 in) of cut at 260 mm (10.2 in) wide is a lot of material in one pass, and it is only possible because of the 2,800 W behind it. In practice that means fewer passes to bring a rough board to dimension, which is where the time goes on this machine.
The cast-iron tables are the quieter half of the specification and arguably the more important one. A surfacing table is a reference surface: the flatness of your board cannot exceed the flatness of the table it slid across. Cast iron is machined flat and stays that way for decades.
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.
Longer, heavier tables handle it better than the portable machines above, and it still exists.
€991 in Germany, €1,280 in France, €1,360 in Italy, €1,381 in Britain, €1,556 in Spain. Same reference, same barcode. On a machine at this price, checking your own store is worth several hundred euros.
No such listing: the American Amazon shop answers the reference with a search box rather than a page.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Motor | 2,800 W |
|---|---|
| Planing width | 260 mm (10.2 in) |
| Cutterhead speed | 6,500 min⁻¹ |
| Maximum depth of cut | 3 mm (0.12 in) |
| Tables | Cast iron |
| Functions | Surface planing and thicknessing |
| Part number | 114026100 |
| Amazon reference | B000R2BWQC (identical on 5 markets) |
| EAN | 4003665436265 |
Two reasons. They are machined flat and stay flat, where pressed steel and aluminum tables can twist over time — and a surfacing table that is not flat cannot produce a flat board, because the table is the reference. And cast iron damps vibration, which shows up directly in the surface finish.
On a 230 V domestic circuit that is close to 12 A, which is within a standard European 16 A circuit but leaves little headroom if an extractor is on the same one. Worth checking your consumer unit and planning a separate circuit for the extractor before the machine arrives.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
8.9/ 10
The machine the other planers here are compromises against. Price it against a year of buying pre-planed stock.
A permanent workshop that processes rough timber regularly and wants to stop compromising
Listed because the blade or part names this saw.
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.
1,800 W · 317 mm (12.5 in) · portable
The professional portable thicknesser: 317 mm (12.5 in) wide, 1,800 W, and built to be carried to a job and used all day.
Best for: Daily use at full width, where the machine has to keep going rather than keep up
1,500 W · 204 mm (8.03 in) wide · 3 mm (0.12 in) cut · aluminum table
The only planer here that publishes how much it takes off in one pass — 3 mm (0.12 in) surfacing, 2 mm (0.08 in) thicknessing — and the most evenly priced across Europe.
Best for: Smaller stock — battens, rails, small beams — where 204 mm (8.03 in) is enough
230 V · planer thicknesser · nothing else published
A €1,098 planer whose listing publishes a part number and a barcode — and which costs €2,017 in Britain.
Best for: A buyer who has already seen this machine and needs a European price check
