Dear Fellow Woodworkers,

I am looking at two lunchbox planers the Makita 2012NB $545 shipped http://www.amazon.com/Makita-2012NB-...=makita+planer

and the Grizzly G0505 $364 shipped http://www.grizzly.com/products/12-1-2-Planer/G0505

I am new to planers and having been doing a lot of research on them and plan on upgrading to a larger floor standing model with a helical head in time. Knowing that I will more than likely be upgrading to a better planer should I spend the extra 200 on the makita? It has stellar reviews and I have been looking for some newer reviews of the G0505 on here but haven't seen any. Amazon has some but a lot of the negative reviews seem to be shipping of operator error involved.


Let me know what y'all think,

Steven Fowler