When it comes to thickness planing wider boards, lots of shops give up at anything over 20 inches and start looking at a widebelt sander or even some kind of router. It gets even worse if your are trying to surface slabs for table tops or a wide glue-up. But the folks at Oak City Customs in Zebulon, North Carolina, have a planer that can outdo some widebelt sanders.

Their 52-inch wide Northtech double surface planer not only thicknesses extra wide stock, but it can also replace a jointer for flattening stock because of the way it is configured. The super powerful machine can take off up to 3/4-inch in a single pass, taking off 3/8-inch on each side of the board. Digital readouts make it easy to set up precisely.

Oak City Customs is a custom fabrication company specializing in both wood and metal custom projects and custom furnishings. Their motto is "From Tree to Table."

They have a 28,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, consisting of a fully equipped wood shop and metal shop. They also have a sawmill with the capability to cut 63-inch-wide slabs, plus, two custom-built, de-humidification kilns that can dry approximately 11,000 board feet of wood per month. This is in addition to over 100,000 board feet of air drying slabs and boards in their yard.

In the video below, watch owner Dylan Selinger process some big boards for a customer.

Learn more at oakcitycustoms.com.