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So I just got my new planer about a week or so ago and love it but just like any other planer I was getting a little bit of snipe with some of the longer boards. Well being the cheap ars that I am and really enjoy making my own stuff, I decided to build my own stand with scrap material that I had laying around my shop. This was my first planer and really haven't been around alot of them so I just took a stab at what I wanted in a planer stand/table. The framing is made from 2+6 and a couple 2+4's. The tops are made from 1/2 MDF (gonna change it to 3/4 though for more support). The way the table works is, there are 4 knobs on each side and under the MDF I put a compression spring between around the 5/16 bolts and MDF. I also installed 4 tubes made from copper (again, scraps laying around) to keep the top in line with the planer. Using the 4 knobs I can adjust the top to get it just perfectly flush/level with the infeed/outfeed of the planer. I sanded the MDF down to 0000 steel wool and coated it with several coats of minwax rub on poly/wax. I have only ran a couple boards through the planer since building the stand but so far it has worked incredible and I haven't gotten any snipe thus far. It particularly comes in really handy with shorter stock b/c you don't have to be on the other side to catch it as it comes out. Yall take a good look at it and tell me if there is anything you would have done different or would change. Thanks, Jeremy
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