Interesting tool I found in my dads stuff

[smorris]

My dad left me most of his woodworking tools, he worked as a pattern maker for 20 years and a cabinet maker about the same so he had some strange and wonderous stuff. I found something in a nice wood box called a drill press surface planer made by Leichtung Work Shops. It seems to chuck into a drill press or RAS (somehow) and is used for planing, raised panel, bevels and scallops. A ~3" disc with 3 cutters on it. Anyone have any ideas if this is useful to me. I plan to keep it, I just wonder if it is worthwhile to try to learn to use. I'll see if I can get a picture of it later and post it.

[gwyneth]

I think something similar is still sold but I'm not sure who makes it. It's the kind of thing that you see in the small ads in the back of woodworking magazines.

In a semi-related vein, whenever I read how-to books from the early 60s and before, it always amazes me to see the weird and wonderful accessories you could buy for power tools then. (Clearly they were more expensive, relative to the value of a dollar then and now, and much more unusual.) Saws that could attach to drills, and so on.

Heck, Kirby vacuums used to have a sanding attachment you could buy.

[Thom2]

Heck, Kirby vacuums used to have a sanding attachment you could buy.

hmmm..... coincidence????

[RodKirby]

hmmm..... coincidence????

YES - nothing more!

[DJehlik]

Mine is called a Wagner Safe-T-Planer. I've had one of these for many years and use it with my DeWalt RAS. I love it. Check out this link for info:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Pl...5.html#details

More info if you Google 'Wagner Safe-T-Planer"

Dave

[LCHIEN]

another link - some parts

http://leichtung.com/cgi-bin/FULLPRE...ARTNUM=836-920

[TheRic]

YES - nothing more!

Rod, you don't need to be that modest!! Or are you saying that since your unhappy with the vacuum part not being good enough.

I have to say I have seen ads / pictures / etc of very strange tool attachments for things. Sometimes it looks like the attachment would cost more than if you bought the actual tool.

[smorris]

Mine is called a Wagner Safe-T-Planer. I've had one of these for many years and use it with my DeWalt RAS. I love it. Check out this link for info:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Pl...5.html#details

More info if you Google 'Wagner Safe-T-Planer"

Dave

Yup, that's it. I wondered how the grinder would be used to sharpen the cutters, now I know, thanks. I think I might play around with it and see what it can do.

Thanks Lchein, now I know where to order the parts when I drop one and it rolls away into some parallel universe that seems to have a gate in my workshop.

[Santa Clarita Len]

I have the Sears Craftsman one that I purchased 35 years ago and I have used it on DeWalt RAS many times and it works great. I manly used it to get two parallel sides on a tree trunk slab when making clocks.

[L. D. Jeffries]

Yup, its just what you said it was. A poor mans planer. Never tried one but I know they still sell them, can't remember what catalog.