Smaller Portable Planer

[Loren Hedahl]

I look at the Festool portable planer every time I go to Edensaw in Port Townsend, pick it up, admire it and all that, but  --

It just seems too big and bulky for me.

So while I was doing a Google on the Bosch I came across this: 

http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/industry-news.asp?sectionID=0&articleID=775195

If I am reading this right, it looks like Festool is introducing a smaller planer.  Is that true?  If so, I should wait awhile before I just go out and buy a Bosch.

 

[w00dbutcheruk]

i have the "one handed planer" or ehl65, i assume this is what your talking about, and its roody great! the ts and guide has made my planers almost redundant these days but when i do need one the 65 is always with me.... long gone is my big dewalt

 

[Forrest Anderson]

I look at the Festool portable planer every time I go to Edensaw in Port Townsend, pick it up, admire it and all that, but  --

It just seems too big and bulky for me.

That sounds as though it's the HL850E. which is the only electric planer marketed by Festool in the USA.

So while I was doing a Google on the Bosch I came across this: 

http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/industry-news.asp?sectionID=0&articleID=775195

If I am reading this right, it looks like Festool is introducing a smaller planer.  Is that true?  If so, I should wait awhile before I just go out and buy a Bosch.

Outside the USA, as well as the HL850E Festool also market a smaller planer called the EHL65E. I assume that this is the planer that is being discussed on the Tools of the Trade website.

The manual is available for this smaller machine, plus a review. I have a Bosch planer at the moment, so I'm afraid that I can't offer any first-hand advice or comparisons between the two machines.

Hopefully FOG members outside the USA will add to w00dbutcheruk's comments about the EHL65E.

Forrest