I would like to do some projects that have larger solid panels, and by larger I mean something like 42 x 42 inches. Heck, maybe larger. Glued up boards. There are some Stickley pieces I want to tackle, one of them a table.

The tools to be used are pipe clamps, hand planes, scrapers, a belt sander, and a random orbit sander. I have what it takes for prepping boards for the glueups: a good 6" jointer and a 12" planer.

I attack a freshly glued up panel first with a big jack plane, running across at maybe a 45 degree angle, to get rid of lippage. Then I will turn and look for the hills and try to deal with them with the jack and then follow with bench-sized planes. Then comes some scraping. After that, it is belt-sanding time, and lastly some work with the ROS.

I would like to get better flatness and wonder if there is one tool I am missing. Would one of the larger Festool ROS units be the ticket? Like the Rotex RO 150?