Since 1980, Woodmaster Tools has sold over 90,000 planers and drum-sanders across America and all over the world. With a 50,000 square-foot assembly facility in Kansas City, MO, Woodmaster is one of the few woodworking machinery manufacturers still making equipment in the USA.

Woodmaster founder and CEO John Miller learned the shop-tool business as part of the family that founded the venerable Belsaw Machinery Company in 1929.

“It’s such a great heritage,” Miller says. “Every week we get a call from someone who’s still using a Belsaw planer he got from his dad or granddad. I want my grand-children to get those calls from my customers’ grand-children, saying their fifty-year-old Woodmaster is still going strong.”

Woodmaster introduced its patented Morse-Taper Planer Head in 1983. This unique design allows woodworkers to easily change the machine from a heavy-duty planer to a precision molding machine in just minutes. Older systems required the removal of bearings. As a result, the process was difficult. With Woodmaster’s Morse-Taper design, bearings stay factory-set, making change-over fast and trouble free.

Another crucial innovation on the Woodmaster Planer/Molder was the infinitely-variable feed-rate, which became standard on all Woodmaster machines in 1983. This exclusive standard feature allows craftsmen to sail through even the toughest oak at high speeds, or slow down to handle highly-figured woods or complex molding patterns.

Woodmaster innovation continued with the introduction of the Woodmaster Drum Sander. Often imitated, the Woodmaster Drum Sander has stayed at the top of the game ever since. Fine Woodworking magazine recently said of the Woodmaster Drum Sander, “Of the closed-frames machines, Woodmaster gets our top vote. It is robustly built, smooth and quiet in operation, offers easy abrasive-strip changing, and includes a reversing conveyor.”

Woodmaster continues its tradition of innovation with new products like their Router Attachment and Spiral Cutterhead.