Not made a guitar before, so this would be a first machine for trying this out, and I can see the potential usefulness for squaring up other bits of wood in a more general sense. My main interest is squaring up smaller pieces of wood up to solid body electric guitar size (lets say, the size of a through-body neck, and halves of a two-piece body). Use of such a machine is probably going to be occasional at most (hence the under-bench trolley idea). The bench I have in mind would have nearly 900mm of clearance underneath, so this could be feasible. One thought I had is to keep the machine under a bench on a little trolley of sorts and pull it out for when I expect to use it. Granted, the workshop (spare bedroom) is a mess and needs sorting out, and there's a plan for that, but even then, space is still going to be at something of a premium. As it is, I barely have room for a combined machine like the 8" Titan. I can appreciate that two separate machines might be better, but space is an issue. I'd likely be using it bolted/clamped to a folding Workmate type of thing, and the powered feed would seem to be a good way to eliminate any lateral forces causes by errors in manual feed rate, thus avoiding potential issues with the stability of the setup. The powered feed rollers seem like a good idea. Machine Mart do what looks like a 10" wide version of the same machine with different branding. If a machine is on the cards, what should I be looking for with a budget up to around 300quid? This one looks quite nice and seems to have good reviews. Is this likely to be flat enough as is, or do I need to run it though one of these thicknesser machines to get the faces nice and flat to get a good join? To put it another way, if it's decently flat (I assume it was put through a similar machine when it was originally processed into planks), will gluing with plenty of clamps be good enough? I have some 20mm thick meranti bought from the local wood place. I want to sandwich planks together to make a lap steel. I suppose the first question should be whether or not I should get one.
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