Dewalt Planer Digital
With the benchtop planer turned off, lower the cutterhead onto the board to get a starting point. Remove the board, turn on the machine, and run the board through the planer. Continue to lower the cutterhead for each pass until you’ve shaved the board down to the desired height. This planer has a 15-amp motor that produces 8,500 RPMs. It has a two-knife cutterhead and a depth of cut of up to 1/8-inch.
The wood comes out so smooth it requires little to no sanding. I can move the planer easily and it takes up very little space. The first board I have ever done looks better than anything I have purchased at the big box wood suppliers. After running 3 projects worth of lumber through this planer, we’re impressed. The DeWalt DW735 is a perfect upgrade from the lower powered benchtop planer, and very effectively bridges the gap to professional shop machinery. We’re not quite ready to open a mill workshop, but this planer does everything that we’ve asked of it and has performed admirably.
Planers can be some of the heaviest tools in your shop. Benchtop planers weigh between 60 and 100 pounds on average, so it may be wise to keep it on your benchtop rather than moving it around. Cutterhead speed refers to how quickly the motor spins the cutterhead. Many planers use pulleys and belts from the motor to spin the cutterhead.
Changing blades is a necessary task for any thickness planer so we wanted to see how they compared. Before you go ahead and change blades that aren’t performing perfectly, take a look at something. You could save yourself time and money with this trick .
In no event will Free Delivery benefits be available to you if reside outside the delivery service area of a Participating Beta Test Program Retailer. Still We can say that DW735X should be dewalt Hand tools your choice if you are looking for thickness planers and DW680k, if you interested in hand planers. You can get up to 32,000 cuts per minute, with a maximum cut depth of 5/64 of an inch.
I love this setup and highly recommend it for anyone who is looking for a decent planer setup and has the room. Either build or find a dresser shaped piece of furniture. This allows a perfect shaped top surface for the planer to be secured to and do it’s dewalt accessories work. And also, because there are drawers below it’s a great way to utilize storage space in the shop. It also has a four carriage column carriage lock that reduces sniping by drastically reducing the amount of movement that can cause material damage.
In fact the last time we did a planer review was back in May 2011 when we did the Delta Planer. This time we are going to tackle the Dewalt 13″ two speed planer. We hope you enjoy this review as the next planer review will be in another two years. For woods that are harder or more prone to tear out a slower speed might be useful. Personally I think preventing tear out has more to do with the sharpness of the knives and how deep each pass through the planer is. It can bog down if you’re trying to take too much good off a large board, especially with very hard wood.
When the knives get dull you can flip the knives for a new edge. Once both sides of the knives wear out you have to get a new pair. They last a pretty long time but I am on my third set of knives already.