Makita planer 1911

[Bumble]

I found this in the second hand shop for equivalent GBP eight pounds only!

The purchase qualified me for a store raffle ticket celebrating the shop's tenth anniversary. I then promptly won the first prize of 100 pounds cash!
I bought new blades, blade setting tool and dust extractor connection all for about 30 pounds and a promise to return to the shop!

It has a 110mm width cutting head and so I can get a flat surface on any (cupped) boards up to that width. With the new blades it's giving a mirror surface.

I think it's a good tool and an excellent (in my case) purchase and I would like to recommend it but being my first and only powered planer; I do not have the authority to do so.

I actually want a jointer planer though I also want another ten square metres of workshop space and that would need to come first.

 

[bp122]

Just watch out for the snipe at the end, but otherwise you will love it!

 

[Sideways]

You can turn solid timber into shavings at lightning speed with one of those

 

[Inspector]

I've one of them too. I don't have the extractor attachment though. It is a useful tool but it doesn't get a lot of use as I have the planer jointer you lust for. Mine is the Hitachi F1000a and my buddy has the Makita 2030. We've had them since the late 70's and early 80's. For the UK readers they are a side by side machine with a 12 inch thicknesser and a 6" surfacer driven from a single motor. They stopped importing them here in the mid 80's. What I've always wanted were the bigger brothers that both companies made with 12" jointers and bigger planers, unfortunately never imported here.

Pete

 

[Bumble]

Yes, I've been collecting the brochures every year. I keep looking through them, fantasizing 'Oh, if I could bring that one home with me'.

For some reason Hitachi (now rebranded Hikoki) no longer list the planers in the catalogue. I haven't picked up the courage to ask them why yet as most of the conversation with them takes place with sign language. I guess it's information on request now.

Last year's catalogue lists the smaller 156mm and 250mm jointer for equiv GBP 2,000 and 5,000 and 'auto return' 250mm and 290mm POA. Then they have an almighty 160mm jointer with 310mm thicknesser and 15" tablesaw. Why blade diameter suddenly goes imperial, I do not know.

Makita still list a full range (ten) of planers from the 2031 up to the 1800kg 320mm two faced planer but for some reason, no longer list their bandsaw which I so often see being used at smaller timber merchants.