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Nice! I was casually looking at a thicknesser/planer the other day. I've brought probably 2 tons of rough-hewn oak with me to every house I've lived in for nearly ten years and really need to do something with it.
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That's a lot of oak. You'll probably want a surface planer too, or a planer thicknesser combo machine. A standalone thicknesser isnt really designed to flatten boards, if you put them on bowed/twisted/cupped they come out the same. I flattened mine using a sled jig trick, but it's slow and a pita (but does work)
Hovis
Had my first foray into thicknessing. This is what inadequate dust collection looks like. Oak chippings literally everywhere. fun fun fun. I have much to learn about how to use it effectively, the desk I'm making is going to end up a fair bit thinner that I had originally planned.