Ross wrote:
Been done. There were a couple of different fixed blade surfacers from
japan a few years ago. I don't know if they are still avialable. Instument
makers really liked them


We had a brief discussion of them over on the OWWM. You can
search the archives there for that. Hitachi and Makita made
them. I did see one come across eBay a short time ago. It
didn't fetch what I would have expected (1).

(1) They aren't cheap. From memory I'm thinking a grand or
two ('Murikan).

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