Planing slabs

More people have routers than have electric hand held planes.

-- Bruce, Boise, ID

For $200 a tool will plane 3 times the width.
If I have an 8’ slab I would prefer to not work it 1 1/2” at a time.
Plus I see HUNDREDS of router sled plans online but not one planer sled which makes me wonder if the is something functionally problematic that I am missing.

The depth of cut with an electric plane will be much less. Mine doesn’t like to go deeper than about 1/8”. So, the width advantage disappears. You can remove more volume in an equal amount of time with the router.

Still, if you want to build a planer sled, no reason not to. It’ll definitely get the job done.

Of course, if speed is really an issue, you can’t go wrong with this guy:

-- Half of what we read or hear about finishing is right. We just don’t know which half! — Bob Flexner