The T77 is the top of the range. It controls up to seven axes digitally and tilts the blade from −46° to +47°, to a hundredth of a degree — the angle is set at the panel, without turning the workpiece or changing the blade halfway through. It cuts up to 205 mm high, on the single-piece steel and concrete structure, which damps vibration and keeps the machine from twisting.
The spindle moulder is MARTIN's historic speciality — in 1966 the T23 was the first in the world with a tilting spindle. The T27 tilts both ways, 46° to each side, and it closes the table rings electrically against the tool, instead of making you hunt for the right fixed ring. It detects the collision and warns before the tool strikes.
A batch at the same thickness is not measured twice. The T45 table rises and falls in 0.1 mm steps and the machine stores 99 planing dimensions, called back by number. The feed runs at 6 or 12 m/min — stepless as an option — and the TERSA knives change in seconds, with nothing to set.
Two specialists are worth more than one combination machine doing both jobs at half throttle: the T54 is the T45's companion. The fence runs on hardened ways, carried on bearings, and tilts from 90° to 45° with one hand. The Xplane cutterblock carries three helical rows of carbide knives, which leave knotty timber cleaner and the workshop quieter.
The best intermediate sanding is the one you don't need. The Q-Fin cuts across the grain, with defined geometry, and leaves the surface absorbing evenly — the next coat sits down with no sanding in between. It also cuts the chamfers, adjustable from 0° to 60°. It was designed with wooden window makers in mind.
MARTIN machines
Premium class, with up to seven digitally controlled axes.
The compact all-rounder, built for today's demands.
Fast and quiet, with precise planing results.
Surfacing and thicknessing on the same machine, in the smallest space.
German engineering, made in Ottobeuren since 1922
MARTIN has been building in Ottobeuren, Bavaria, since 1922, and that is still where the machines come from. In 1923 it registered the first utility model for the iron and concrete frame that still gives them their body today.
That is where the precision comes from. Hardened steel guides, continuously lubricated, without a single plastic part, and a steel and concrete frame, for damping and torsional stiffness. Along the way, more than 110 patents and registered designs.
There are 161 people, across nine trades. Apprentices make up 13% of the workforce, against a German average of 4.9% — the factory trains the people who build the machines. More than 65% of production is exported, to more than 70 countries.
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