Ryobi AP1300 Planer

With an input of 2000 watts, the AP13 has enough grunt to plane down most boards, and at the recommended maximum depth of cut per pass (3mm).

The maximum planing width of 318mm (or 12.5 inches) is fairly standard on these smaller portable machines and is sufficient for most widths of boards you will ever come across. Certainly, you may have wider boards/slabs that may not be suitable for planing on this machine, and if there is no other way of planing or thicknessing these boards easily, you always have the option of ripping them into two or more pieces, planing them and then rejoining them. Not ideal of course, but you can only perform such miracles with miracle machines costing significantly more.

The planing height range of 7-153mm (0.276 - 6.02 inches) is again likely to be all you will need for most surface planing tasks. If you happen to grab yourself a nice lump of lumber that is too big for the machine, chances are that you are going to have to cut it down to smaller sizes for your project anyway (or fork out more money for a mega machine).

This is certainly one machine the weekend hobbyist or dedicated home woodworker would find invaluable in the production phase of their projects. The ability to take 'rough' lumber and plane it down to a useable state (assuming it has one flat surface) is an attribute that makes this particular type of machine a 'must-have'. While it cannot flatten cupped, curved or twisted boards like a jointer machine can, the AP13 combined with a jointer would certainly have you stacking up quality boards in your workshop ready for action.

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