Can a cheap $40 planer get you professional results?

http://kazumakinoshitasurfboards.com Due to a popular demand, here is a no frills freestyle handshaping video using a $40 stock Wen planer to shape a 9'0" longboard. Without the adjust on the fly modification you will see me do a few things differently to compensate for the planers limitations. Using a stock planer is definitely slower, more clumsy and leads me to have much less confidence in my cuts which results in more checking my work to confirm my cuts. In the end, I still get the exact finished product that I want and you would not be able to tell which planer the shape was made from. Disclaimer: from the point that I left off there is still at least 30 minutes of finish shaping to make it a showroom quality shape and I did not take the usual 15 minutes of measuring rocker / foil before during and after shaping.