I was looking at Roger's very nice planer stand and it got my wheels turning. Not always a good thing but once they get started, it's hard to stop them.
Anybody ever give thought to building a planer stand with a continuous bed? See the enclosed simplified picture. I'm thinking that if the the bed passed through the planer, alignment would be a simple thing.
Granted it would mean disassembly to remove the planer but that doesn't happen too often. Additionally, you would lose a bit of height capacity but I rarely ever need that much capacity on my planer.
Any thoughts?