Flat, square, to thickness · review
A 317 mm (12.5 in) portable thicknesser — the widest capacity on this page — and a price that swings by nearly €300 depending on the country.
The end of it The width per euro champion, if you can buy it at the British price and already own a way to flatten a face.
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.
1,100 W, 317 mm (12.5 in) maximum width, part number 583534.
317 mm (12.5 in) takes a glued-up panel, not just a board. That is a different class of work from the 204 to 260 mm (8.03 to 10.2 in) machines that dominate this price bracket, and it is the reason to look at this machine.
It does not surface. There is no cutterhead you can run a board over to flatten a face, so this machine has to sit alongside something that does that job. Feeding a cupped or twisted board straight into a thicknesser gives you a thinner cupped board and a lot of shavings.
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.
€289 in Britain against €569 in Germany, same reference, same barcode. Triton is a British-market brand and its home pricing shows it. This is one of the clearest cases on the site for checking your own store before ordering.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Motor | 1,100 W |
|---|---|
| Maximum width | 317 mm (12.5 in) |
| Part number | 583534 |
| Amazon reference | B008JEL6KC (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 5024763078415 |
You need another way to produce the first flat face — a hand plane, a router sled, or a jointer. Feeding a twisted board into a thicknesser produces a thinner twisted board, because the machine references the face lying on its bed. This is the single most common misunderstanding about portable thicknessers.
We recorded €289 in Britain, €445 in Spain, €447 in France, €532 in Italy and €569 in Germany, all on the same reference and EAN. Triton is a British-market brand, which explains the direction if not the size of the gap.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
7.5/ 10
The width per euro champion, if you can buy it at the British price and already own a way to flatten a face.
A workshop that already flattens faces some other way and needs width
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
