Bosch Electric Planer PHO 1500 (550 Watt, in Carton Packaging)

Very good piece of kit, handles well & does a good job.

Usual BOSCH quality only has one blade but cuts with ease can take upto 1.5mm off at a time Made lite work of planning internal doors to size shame it doesn’t have a bag to catch the shavings as it produces lots hoover pipe does fit and works a treat

For me, more than adequate for DIY jobs and not a bad price. I had a much older Bosch model which was used on doors, some chairs and other sundry jobs before it expired from use - and the newer model is a nice improvement via the calibrated depth/cutting adjuster and feels better in my hands. Things to note: a- if you're new to using a planer start low on the setting and do more runs - as others have recorded, getting to the ends of the wood can cause splits and chips. Best put an end-block on, so the planer blade has resistance. Or come back the other way. Sometimes also use masking tape on painted edges to try and prevent paint chips - but with care, as the planer blade won't appreciate sticky tape! Remember, you can plane it off but not back on. b- get some spare blades in stock. I have hit sunken metal and the blades whilst robust for wood, will get notched by nails etc. The blades are easily changed. c- these tools do generate a lot of dust and are best used outside. I've not found the bags to be that good/effective - I have yet to hook up a vacuum cleaner and see what this brings. Another plus is that it's lightweight and the power cord is long enough to allow a decent reach. I have used the new model on the top of a wooden front door in situ.

Me and wood just don't go together and I never cut a piece of wood straight. I needed to shave about 5mm off my new living room door. No way was I going to plane that off by hand, so bought this. Easy to use and did the job so quickly and neatly too. Saved a lot of hard work and I would recommend this tool.

Really good plane for the price. Used for trimming new doors. Control and adjustment is easy. Hook it to a vacuum cleaner and only the slightest bit of mess to clean up.

I spend some time researching planers, it wasn’t a purchase I wanted to make as I was only fitting one internal £25 B&Q door. I actual followed some great tips on YouTube on sizing the door I.e take the old one and mark off the difference... so far so good, but the door was warped and no matter what I did I could line up the two doors.. honestly nightmare. Any case using my trusted circle saw I made the cuts.. nice, fitted the locks and hinges.. so far so good.... the door didn’t fit after all that. Two options continue and cut the door using the trusted saw or get a plane.. the issue is cutting at a slight angle and ending up with a smooth cut. I think I could have done that but two different faces out.. I checked out a load of these.. price ranging from 28 to 180 pounds. I was going to get the cheaper end, but it seems you have to go back to the suppliers to get replacement blades. So that ruled out the cheaper brands. Bosch is good brand and this one was £60 ish pounds. Wow.......... fantastic pce of kit honesty it’s not noisy, and it did the door in not time.. a real pleasure to use. I hooked it up to my nitflex t22 wet and dry vacuum. NO dust. If your looking get it.. I will look forward to using this again when the wife wants to change all the doors to oak...

First class planer well weighted and a very smooth finish, well pleased with this purchase, I recommend this tool for decent DIY projects.

Made short work of my stubborn garden wooden door, which would warp during the wet weather and not be able to open. A few glides using this baby and the problem is gone! Couldn’t imagine doing this job with a manual hand tool! The time/effort saved more than makes this product worth its weight in gold! It was harder work painting the door afterwards!

Very good tool ... little bit heavy but i think all the same tool is heavy.

Works amazing for a hobbyist like me, great quality. As for the item missing a star as it seems to be a display item because of some scuffs at the bottom of the machine, not saying a used item, but likely to be a store display item

Perfect product but the only downside is there is no bag on the side to collect... makes a mess... otherwise works great and very easy to handle even for beginners

Very good product but no accessories.

I recieved original packing with broken seal on the box. Product was looking new but user manual was in bad shape. I returned the item.