When it comes to thickness planing wider boards, lots of shops give up at anything over 20 inches and start looking at a widebelt sander or even some kind of router. It gets even worse if your are trying to surface slabs for table tops or a wide glue-up. But the folks at Oak City Customs in Zebulon, North Carolina, have a planer that can outdo some widebelt sanders.
Their 52-inch wide Northtech double surface planer not only thicknesses extra wide stock, but it can also replace a jointer for flattening stock because of the way it is configured. The super powerful machine can take off up to 3/4-inch in a single pass, taking off 3/8-inch on each side of the board. Digital readouts make it easy to set up precisely.
Oak City Customs is a custom fabrication company specializing in both wood and metal custom projects and custom furnishings. Their motto is “From Tree to Table.”…