Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!tove!pds From: pds@tove.UUCP (Dave Stotts) Newsgroups: net.rec.wood Subject: request for info on planers Message-ID: <344@tove.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 10:15:58 EDT Article-I.D.: tove.344 Posted: Thu Oct 24 10:15:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 07:40:37 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 18 I am thinking about purchasing a planer for my woodshop. I have several rooms in my house to finish off, and I think that I can save enough money planing rough lumber down to siding to make the cost of the planer low enough to justify in the short term. So I wonder if any of you woodworkers out there have a planer now that you are pleased with that you would tell me about... or if you have one you are not pleased with, tell me why it is no good. Here's another topic for discussion... which power tool is more useful to you as a woodworker...a table saw, or a band saw? Table saws are more often the first tools purchased for a shop, but several articles I have read in Fine Woodworking on setting up a shop have recommended buying a band saw first, as it is more versatile (resaws lumber) and its work less easily duplicated by other tools. Any opinions? Dave Stotts Univ. of Maryland Computer Science