With a wood planer, anyone who is in wood product profession can understand the value of this tool. A’ve had to hand remove them in the past, and it’s an enormous amount of work taking boards square again. With the planer, this job only takes a few minutes. In addition it is instructive Which way all depends upon the particular job. You can fine tune a width or deep as 1/25 of an inch (such as when milling door frames, where plates must be exactly the same thickness in order for all the parts to slide smoothly into those channels). A piece of wood that's too big to fit SteadyHand one way were best sanded down or at least confined to palm planes' embrace (if alongside two pinch carriers that is). Again, the thickness planer repays your investment in other ways: much of what would go onto the waste pile at processing time would actually end up as fully usable trim stock. Finally, the wood planer improves the sense of your work: product will be expected to turn out in an overall way that is superior and both attractive as well structurally sound.