Got a new old toy today

[97redjeep]

Picked up a older king Canada benchtop planer today, I can feel the projects building up already 

Just need a jointer and table for my router and I’ll be set. And maybe a bandsaw

[firefighter ontheside]

YEah, a planer is a very valuable tool.  I had a planer long before I had a jointer.  You don't realize how much you've missed a jointer til you have one.  Love my bandsaw too.

[kantuckid]

There are some really good router tables & kits out there nowdays. Mine came from a Highlands Hardware Kits longtime back but I see even better stuff now. It has concrete blocks underneath for weight stability. I never pull the router off that table as lots of ebay, etc. routers for hand work. 
Planer is essential for me but in the beginning a jointer was a get by tool that evolved from a 6" Craftsman to an 8" big fellow. They work together in tandem to create a usable board for furniture work unless your into hand planing/jointing  
Bandsaws are essential to wood lathes and beyond. 
Might want to look at an adjustable frame wheel kit for your planer? I have wheels on TS, planer and bandsaw along with my wood working bench. 

[97redjeep]

 

 This stand is on wheels, and I’m liking it for ease of storage. It isn’t adjustable but at 6’3” I don’t mind it being high  the day I got this planer there was a Jointer for sale also, I missed it though,  my wife saw it on Facebook and I don’t have it ha ha Ha when I called back it was already spoken for. There was a whole pile of stuff for sale, it was a liquidation an old timer had passed away and they needed to get the shop Empty as soon as possible, there was a really nice lathe as well but it was spoken  for, I forget the make but it’s all 3 of us could do to get it in the truck, it reminds me of a lathe in my school woodwork class. I did however get a good score on a few clamps for $10. I asked how much and they said $2 each, there was only a half dozen on the wall, I said no I’ll give you $50. Continued looking around and decided I should go, went to pay them and they’d only take $10 for all the clamps. 

[doc henderson]

nice score, and way to treat people redjeep.

[kantuckid]

By "adjustable", what I meant is that there are rolling stands with lockable casters made for stationary machines. They all have steel angle sides with rows of holes to adjust for a range of machine base sizes. Come in a couple of sizes.
They contain the machine base within the angle steel and have rocker action on one set of wheels to keep a machine in place. Not a simple rolling base which obviously does work but lacks what the designed gizmos provide.
Clamps like the steel I-beam Jorgensons are no longer made and high cost to ship ebay old ones. Mine are a gold mine of sorts.
Sort of like the clamp deal above, I sold a woman a table recently @ $350 and she handed me $50 too much based on the FB price in my ad. Id given her a comedown price over the phone.
I think it sort of embarrassed her when I handed back the 50$ bill but not much other choice really. 

[firefighter ontheside]

Good deal.  You can never have too many clamps, but you can run out of room to keep them.  I buy most of my clamps at auction.  I have about 8 fancy parallel clamps that I got at auction, but I actually prefer to use the pipe clamps.  I have lots of those and many lengths, plus I use threaded couplings to make them longer if I need to.  They are easier to operate than the parallel clamps too.

[ljohnsaw]

Wall space is lacking in my shop so I went up:


 

 

 
This is an old set of pictures.  It is completely full and doubled up on some of the hooks.  And still not enough!

[firefighter ontheside]

Good idea John.  Make use of all usable space.  My ceiling is too high in the shop to do that, but it gives me an idea.

[97redjeep]

Ljohnsaw , that is a good idea, I’m in the same boat as firefighter, 18’ ceiling, eventually I plan on building a mezzanine in the shop and that’d save me some space! 

 
 Played with the planer a bit more, saves a lot of sanding  

[ljohnsaw]

I’m in the same boat as firefighter, 18’ ceiling

I wish!  Maybe that's why my cabin is going to have the basement with 10' ceiling.  My shop is terraced, I've got 3 levels with a total length about 28' and 16' wide.  Lowest has about ~9' ceiling, next is about 7'6"' and then down to 6'4" or so - that's where the clamps are hanging.

[97redjeep]

 

 
Got some more playing done today   I should have bought one of there a long time ago hahaha 

[SwampDonkey]

By "adjustable", what I meant is that there are rolling stands with lockable casters made for stationary machines. They all have steel angle sides with rows of holes to adjust for a range of machine base sizes. Come in a couple of sizes.
They contain the machine base within the angle steel and have rocker action on one set of wheels to keep a machine in place. Not a simple rolling base which obviously does work but lacks what the designed gizmos provide.
Clamps like the steel I-beam Jorgensons are no longer made and high cost to ship ebay old ones. Mine are a gold mine of sorts.
Sort of like the clamp deal above, I sold a woman a table recently @ $350 and she handed me $50 too much based on the FB price in my ad. Id given her a comedown price over the phone.
I think it sort of embarrassed her when I handed back the 50$ bill but not much other choice really.

I got mine from Uline, only not to mount machines, no holes pre-drilled. Mine has no lip on the top shelf, so stuff can be slid off or used as a bench. But built like a tank and will out last 3 generations. Holds 2500 lbs, I think that will do. Right now I store my whole house AC on it for winter, can slide it on and roll away.

[SwampDonkey]

This is an old set of pictures.  It is completely full and doubled up on some of the hooks.  And still not enough!

Yup, can always use more clamps.

[kantuckid]

Google "adjustable machine bases" and their are many brands and price points. My e.g. is a base that the machine stays on, is low to the floor and becomes mobile to free up floor space but can be locked in place. 
The only pipe clamps I use are a couple not often employed that are longers than my "I" beam crank handle clamps. In a perfect world a board joined exactly, etc. a twist handle clamp work fine but I like acme threads and a crank handle other than my large stash of the new style one handed, reversabile to a spreader, squeeze clamps. FWIW, avoid those low quality ones sold by HF like the plague! I tried a couple and found them to have loosened their force overnight-a nono in glue ups. I like Wolfcraft best of all those squeezers but all the name brands in the heavier ratings are VG.  

[97redjeep]

 
Been a while since I posted, milled up some good sized Bug kill pine the other day and the work began haha I’m really liking how the table turned out
 

 

 

 

 

[97redjeep]

Oh ya, and a goose slab

[Phenoix66]

Great tool! These old planers are of top build quality! Most new products don't even come near!