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makes sense, I blame my failing eyesight...
I have the small Jet planer/thicknesser machine and its great (wish I'd bought the 310 though) it was approx. £600 when I bought it, its now nearly £2k! Axminster trade one looks better value and very similar.
I love machining timber up, I never get over how it changes from rough sawn to planed and the fantastic grain appears - particularly American black walnut
I'll look out for the finished table
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I went to axminster a few weeks ago to eye up their machines. Their unit's table flips up in two pieces and is generally a faff. I got the feeling they would fall out of alignment with one another with time. The jet seemed better in every way. They are "on sale" at 1.7k now. If one pops up second hand I'll bite. Speaking of, want to make your money back and sell me yours!?
Hovis
Ah, the board I think you are looking at is a bit of 12mm birch ply that I was using as an outfeed table. The oak is on the table at the back left, the boards final dimensions are 220mm wide by 25mm thick which I think should be ok but I may learn the hard way too. I'm going for a continous 650mm deep table with the grain "waterfalling", so the edges of the table top will be bevelled and glued/dowelled into the legs. I'll put a lengthways apron at the back edge as well as to prevent sagging.
We'll see, I was originally intending 30mm thick, but inexperience with the milling process has lead to 24mm final thickness. Worse come worse I'll put some stiffeners along the width underneath.