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I’m with rodrat, but if I had the available space and the noise tolerance, a thicknesser would seem to be a nice thing to own.
One thing I don’t understand, what do you folks who own thicknessers do when the board / panel is wider than your thicknesser’s capacity? It seems for a paltry 15″ of capacity, you’re spending thousands of dollars, and require a big chunk of floor space…lots of panels in lots of projects are wider than 15″, so are you still doing a lot of preparation by hand, or do you just thickness them, do the panel glue-up, and then pretend that the glue-up was perfect?