Buy Festool HL 850 E 7 Amp PlanerFestool HL 850 E 7 Amp Planer Product Description:
- Single knife cutter-head with spiral design with replaceable cutting knife for a smooth, quiet and ?chatter-free? cut.
- Multiple head options to create rustic architectural effects in beams and flooring.
- Unlimited rabbeting depth with flush cutter side design and retractable spring-loaded guard.
- Rotary handle depth adjustment allows precise depth setting to 1/256" (1/10 mm) up to 9/64" (3.5 mm).
- highly efficient dust extractable design accomodates extraction from either side for less mess and clean up.
Product Description
Includes HL 850 E Planer - 574539, Parallel Guide - 484513, Rabbet Depth Guide - 484512, Systainer 3 Case - 445596
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Loren Woirhaye
All handheld planers make the same basic cut. You can get a tool that does the work for less than $100. Most run with twice as many knives as the Festool, a quality which you'd think would be a good thing.Well, Festool makes more of less there.Other planers I've used produce a flurry of little airborn chips - at, in my experience, earsplitting noise levels. The Festool, due to its one curved knife produces a longer shaving which at at times resembles what you'd get from a scrub plane (your hamster would love them) and the shearing cut is relatively quiet as well. I use ear protection anyway, but even with earplugs, quieter tools are less fatiguing to use.I bought the Festool because:1) I know it's relatively quiet and screaming power tools set my teeth on edge.2) It rabbets to unlimited depth and 3.5" wide - a capacity overblown as to be useless to me in my past cabinetmaking and the refined furniture I've built in the past. However - I yearn for heavy lifting and coarse, Nordic, manly work. Thus my next phase as a furniture builder shall be one of brutish scale and hand-hewn (looking) timbers.3) Special additional cutterheads are available for rustic textures. Again, I'm making furniture for he-men so it's got to look like it was carved out with an adze to satisy.(Festool does not have a monopoly on the idea of turning a planer into a texturing tool. I have reground a set of knives for my Makita planer to make a rounded cut and it makes a nice, though obviously machined cut. The Festool due to it's single, curved knife produces a cut with much less perceivable ripple. Of course you have to get the special planer heads at additional expense since the design of the Festool straight cutterhead makes regrinding the knife probably a dumb idea. In addition, Festool has cutterhead/knife combos available for sculpting more complex, rippled textures.)4) I own other Festool stuff and I've been consistently impressed with the way it works by handheld power tool standards.In use, the 850 is pleasant to use, not too heavy, well-balanced and (did I say?) quiet for a planer. In surfacing big rough boards, I found the smooth cut makes it feel a lot more like a handplane than you'd expect in a power tool. I'm right handed, as is the 850 - but I found that I could use it left handed easily with excellent results. As a surfacing tool it almosts bests a bench plane in this respect because the cut is effortless; you just move to tool over the work and it cuts. The tool is very sensitive to subtle weight shifts from side to side - which is an asset once you get the feel of it.I haven't been using this tool for fitting doors. I'm sure it's a great tool for doing door work because the sole is long for an electric hand planer, the cut is clean and effortless, and the balance is excellent.
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