re: Stockroom Supply Flatmaster Drum Sander

Took me 2 years to see this comment.

Splint at first I thought the same thing. The rollers height actually is that height difference you see on a jointer, the outfeed table ends up being higher after you go over the drum, so it picks up and carries pretty damn flat the stock you are shoving through, so like a jointer backwards. The guy at a show had to show my dum butt, as he did it. He had a very long Micrometer that easily fed over 10" or so of the stock, so you could see what he meant. In terms of accuracy his was as dialed in as one could be, and would take many many tries and adjustments to get it so. Believe me I tried. I could get reasonably close, but never as flat as his was. But it was plenty flat enough to work with pretty easily. I just like to measure stuff, and get that little smile when stuff is right where you wanted it. Overall though a wide drum sander, at least for me is much easier, and gives great results. Costs more than this tool, but ehhhh, you only buy them once. Plus that height difference is almost nothing in terms of a number. So if you had rough stock, and no planer, hand planes, or router sled to cut it down to smooth, it would be a multi pass thing to get what we see as rough stock, smooth.