Some manufacturers have drastically reduced the amount of snipe created by their benchtop planers, but it eventually comes down to a trade-off. For these tools to be portable, the folding infeed and outfeed tables are kept short, and are prone to misalignment. But by removing the manufacturer’s tables and replacing them with a portable, adjustable, shopmade version, snipe becomes much less of an issue. In his tool review, Portable Thickness Planers, Christian M. Whalen recommends building the infeed/outfeed table he learned about from woodworker Andy Beasley.
Click on the PDF to download dimensions and instructions on how to build the table.
This might be trivial, but I use the same planer sown in the picture in this article. I made the same infeed and outfeed tables described in the article, but I have a question about looming up the tables. On the delta planer shown, the outside edges of the base plate opposite the rollers and cutter head move up and down about 1/8". So should the infeed and outfeed tables be lined up when those edges when they are elevated or depressed?