Hi all,
The latest WoodenBoat magazine has a review of "The Woodmaster" - multifunctional woodworking machine. The guy says it milled out 80.75" x 2.5" planks 12 to 18 feet long into eighty planks of T&G "milled to perfection" in about 30 minutes including setup time.
Then they changes fixtures and ran the eithey pieces through the drum sander..."....they were so smooth and clean looking that I accepted the offer of a pair of powder-coated latex gloves.." to load them into his truck.
You can mount mor ethan one circular saw blad and rip boards into several widths in one pass. then put on the thickness planer attachment and plane them down (variable speed feed motor giving 1000 cuts per inch, 3 knife cutter head, "..precision elevation control allows the tiniest adjustment for thickness..."
Mouldings, T&G? Get the custom knife holder.
get the router attachment and the ripped planks can then have a bevel routed on them (or a rabbet etc.) as the rip saw is sawing them out.
There is a 12.5" version (5 hp motor), and 18" version (?hp) and a 25" model (7hp motor). $1,195 $1,595, $2,398 respectively.
Of course all those fixtures are going to cost more.
But if this thign can do what the author claims and does it well, you save some money on tools, perhaps;. it won't replace a table saw, though it cna do a lot of the work of a table saw
Anyone seen one of these? played with one? Read other reviews?
thanks
--- Gregg
My woodworking projects:
Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments: