“My wife, Paula, and I are very serious hobbyists. In fact, our woodworking is a hobby that’s gotten out of control! We built a home with a 1,600 square foot work area and we spend our winters doing woodworking. We build all kinds of things. We’ve made a pool table, poker tables, all the cabinetry in our home, trim, furniture, wine cabinets, even 5 bunk beds for our 9 grandchildren at our family lake house.
Our first planer was an old Belsaw we resurrected out of the mud on a farm. We rebuilt it and used it for years. These days, we have top-rated tools like our Woodmaster Molder/Planer and Woodmaster Drum Sander.
Everything we make is for ourselves and gifts for family and friends. We don’t sell anything. We’re retired and we like it that way. We like to travel and spend time with the grandkids. We keep busy in retirement and we do woodworking for the love of doing it.
Nothing as frustrating as equipment that doesn’t work well
Nothing’s as frustrating as equipment that doesn’t work well. Lumber isn’t cheap and you don’t want to be making a cut wrong and doing it over three times. So we buy quality equipment.
I looked at all kinds of planers including the cantilever kind where the head’s attached at only one side. I ended up getting a Woodmaster planer because it’s a no-frills, solid piece of equipment. I’ve pushed it, I guess, and punished it, and it comes back for more. It’s a good value for the money. I would love to get one of Woodmaster’s spiral cutterheads sometime.
Rough cut lumber’s very reasonably priced
I got the planer because I wanted to start projects using rough cut lumber. I can get rough cut boards at sawmills at a reasonable price rather than very expensive finished lumber at big box stores. There are lots of small sawmills around here in Indiana and I’ve even cut trees from our back property and had them sawn into boards, air dried them, and put them through our Woodmasters.
If you’re buying rough cut lumber, you must have a planer. The rough boards are usually about 1” thick. I run them through our Woodmaster Planer about 1/100th of an inch oversize then sand them to the exact dimension with our Woodmaster Drum Sander.
I chose the mid-sized Woodmaster Planer because it was all I could afford at the time. I knew the 12” model was too small, and the 25” was more than I wanted to spend. This planer works for me – I rarely work with boards wider than 15” or 16.”
Infinitely variable feed rate is absolutely necessary
The advantage of this planer is its durability. And the variable speed is absolutely necessary. My old Belsaw planer had just 1 speed. With the Woodmaster, the feed rate is infinitely variable. I can run workpieces through fast, slow, or anywhere in between. And the precise height adjustment lets me achieve tolerances to 0.005. That’s 5 thousandths of an inch.
My Woodmasters have never let me down and I don’t have any stones to throw. Every machine has its limits and I try to abide by them though, really, I do push it a little hard sometimes. I talk up Woodmaster every chance I get.”
— Steve and Paula Elett, Woodmaster Owners, Angola IN
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