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Porter Cable makes a nice 12 1/2'' bench planer that has reversible, self aligning blades, which makes changes a snap. I have been known to clamp a nice five foot piece of LVL onto the bottom of one to make a long in feed/ out feed table. It makes it much easier to handle long boards single handed.
This is a nice tool that will last a long time. The key is to change the blades as soon as they seem the slightest bit dull, and you will get a nice result. It will take about a third of a sixteenth every pass on oak, so a sixteenth every three passes. It will do that all day long.
Bigger machines will take a heavier cut, but this is a nice machine that you could use now and keep for years. Always come home with extra blades.
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