Bosch Home and Garden Electric Planer PHO 1500 (550 W, Planing width 82 mm, Weight 2.4 kg, Cutting depth 0 – 1.5 mm, in carton packaging)

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A lot of planer blades are reversible, with a sharp edge on both sides that can be flipped through 180° for longer life. Bosch planers are powerful and precise, offering accuracy and ease of use even throughout demanding tasks.

You can certainly go for a cordless electric planer too, although speed can be somewhat slower for these (10,000-15,000rpm). A dust or chip extraction facility is a very important feature on any woodworking tool that generate a lot of sawdust – look for a dual-sided dust port so a hose or bag does not get in the way.Normally it’s an added extra but Ryobi have included one here for when you need to cut a rabbet or step into the workpiece. It’s the user-friendly touches like this that make it one of the best electric wood planers available right now. Cutting annoying cords has set professional carpenters and savvy DIYers free to plane wherever they want. Cutting speeds are generally slower and they’re heavy when high Ah batteries are installed, however.

The tool's ambidextrous lock-off release button helps prevent avoid accidental starts, and it has a lock-on button for extended operation, a combination that is unique to Bosch planers. I was excited about getting my hands on this planer to see how it stacked up against the “blue” professional series. You’ll have noticed that I haven’t mentioned the knife width when discussing the best electric planers.Do you want to stay up to date as well as receive information about new products and exciting ideas for DIYers and gardeners? Although the best electric plane will remove up to 3 mm of material on a single pass, I don’t recommend setting the maximum depth unless you want to dull your blades quickly and risk tearing out material on the ends of the workpiece. Corded tools like planers need longer cables, so you don’t have to get out the extension cord all the time. A power planer will have a dust port on it somewhere that you hope will attach to a dust bag, in a pinch, or a more effective dust extraction system.