The Dewalt jointers in the UK appear to be a similar price to Norm's nice one.

For example here is the 600W one at £227 (and according to their UK website that is the only model they do):

http://www.diy.com/bq/product/product.jhtml?PRODID=203742&CATID=203521

which is a bit more than I really want to spend

Another case of rip-off Britain ?
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