Benchtop thickness planers make quick work of smoothing and flattening wood boards. We tested the top models on the market—find out which ones aced our hands-on tests.

The cup marks are caused by a rapid trip through a planer. To remove them, you'll need to run the boards through a benchtop planer. If you don't have one, they can be quite useful—and save you ...

This is a benchtop planer, not a portable one. Indeed, when the crated planer arrived at the unfinished workshop for testing, the FedEx driver announced that “whatever this thing is must weigh ...