Abstract: A planer-type face milling machine for processing wood having a drive motor that is coupled to a work spindle, which supports, on a free end, a milling head, which on its front side supports cutting edges, the milling head being configured particularly as a disk-shaped body, running parallel to the workpiece surface, the milling cutting edges being supported by a cutter, particularly a planar one, furnished with main and secondary cutting edges, and removably arranged on the milling head, is configured as a particularly effective and-tool machine in that the planer-type face milling machine is correspondingly small and light and has a housing having a handle, the milling head supporting a cutter without a main cutting edge and having only at least one secondary cutting edge.