Flat, square, to thickness · review
A €340 combination planer that takes 254 mm (10 in) of width and states every figure that matters — and costs €939 on amazon.com.
The end of it The best-specified planer under €400 in this group. Buy it in Germany and expect to fettle the knives.
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.
1,500 W, a combined surfacing and thicknessing machine, 254 mm (10 in) planing width, 120 mm (4.72 in) thicknessing height, an adjustable surfacing fence from 90° to 135°, two HSS knives, and central knob adjustment for the planing height. Part number 4902204000.
Surfacing — running a board over the top of the cutterhead against the fence — makes one face flat and one edge square to it. Thicknessing — feeding it underneath — makes the second face parallel to the first at a set dimension. The order is not a preference. A thicknesser references the face lying on its bed, so a cupped board fed straight in comes out as a thinner cupped board.
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.
At this price the head carries two HSS knives. They cut cleanly with the grain, they tear out on anything figured, and resetting them after a nick is a fiddly job with a gauge. A helical head with indexed carbide inserts fixes both problems and nothing at this price has one.
| Motor | 1,500 W |
|---|---|
| Planing width | 254 mm (10 in) |
| Thicknessing height | 120 mm (4.72 in) |
| Fence range | 90° to 135°, adjustable |
| Knives | Two HSS planer knives |
| Part number | 4902204000 |
| Amazon reference | B01BTZI6LE (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 4046664015253 |
Same motor rating at 1,500 W and the same 120 mm (4.72 in) of thicknessing height, but 254 mm (10 in) of width against the Einhell's 204 mm (8.03 in) — a full 50 mm (1.97 in) more board. In Germany the Scheppach is €20 more. Outside Germany the ranking changes market by market, which is the argument for checking your own store.
Planing a chamfer or an angled edge directly, without a jig. Most work happens with the fence at 90°, and the adjustment is what turns the machine into something that can cut a consistent bevel down a long edge.
A surfacing table is a reference surface, and a board can only be made as straight as the length of table it rides across. Short tables give you a gently curved edge on a long board. Scheppach does not publish the figure here, which is common at this price and still a gap.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
8.1/ 10
The best-specified planer under €400 in this group. Buy it in Germany and expect to fettle the knives.
A home workshop starting to buy rough-sawn timber instead of pre-planed stock
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
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.
