Thicknessers

**old pete** · 21st March 2009, 03:01 PM

Hi WBM

Its generally acknowledged in the trade as a waste of time to thickness timber unless it has first had one face flattened and straightened that subsequently becomes the index face on the bed of the thicknesser.

When you have the board thicknessed with two flat straight faces then you can turn your attention to getting one edge straight and square and the only realistic way to do this is on a planer. When you have that edge right then go to the sawbench and make both edges parallel and sawn a little bit over the width you need to have.

You could I suppose then put it throught the thicknesser to dress the edge. I put it once over the planer taking a cut of about 0.5 mm.

Sorry to be a Jonah but we're not going to throw away a 1000 years of joinery practice in one easy lesson. Preparing timber correctly is a considerable trade skill and everything downstream flows from getting it right up front.

Old Pete

**justinmcf** · 26th March 2009, 08:25 AM

hi, i bought a dewalt thicknesser dw735 november 2008, its max capacity is 325mm wide and 150mm height.
i paid $1350, it is a light duty machine, you need a heavy duty machine and i dont think it will be portable either.
i can lift the dewalt on to the ute, it weighs 40kg, but i am sure you will end up buying a 100kg+ machine, 3phase and lots of horses.

if i was buying a heavy duty machine, i would be visiting my local joinery workshops and see what they are using, more than likely i would end up buying a U.S. brand such as grizzly, woodmaster or laguna.

regards, justin

**Waldo** · 26th March 2009, 09:10 AM

The C/Tec thicknessers and Grizzly are the one and the same

Good old Taiwan/China. Only that C/Tec don't import the whole of the line up that Grizzly stock.

**rosegum** · 26th March 2009, 08:30 PM

Also have the money to purchase my first thickness have been comparing C/Tec CT-236, H&F T-330 and also one I saw today at Total Tools also a 330 mm very closely resembles the H&F. Both the Total Tools and H&F are very similar in cost. The C/Tec model also is a lot more expensive uses 3 blades (from reading is supposed to give better results?) and is a molder/thicknesser.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

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