Woodworking Planers & Joiners
This finishing speed is nearly twice as slow, and gives much nicer planing results. It also helps with dealing with difficult, reversing grains and figured woods. If you are able to resharpen them yourselves , you can save on costs of purchasing replacement blades. You can also pick your preferred angle for the blades, and even add a micro bevel, which may improve the cut quality.
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.
It offers not just serious features for serious wood workers, but it’s so easy to use that beginners can use this to get the professional results they’re looking for. Woodworkers who want to take their DIY hobby seriously will certainly need professional, commercial-grade tools to work on wood. The problem is that truly commercial woodworking tools are large and expensive, and only the big contractors can afford them. On the other hand, affordable tools are typically just unable to handle heavy-duty work. The CMEW320 is a solid two-blade planer that provides adequate stock removal and is targeted for those new to power tools.
The planer can make a maximum cut depth of 1/8 inch and a depth capacity of 6 inches. The total capacity of 13 inches was ample enough for me and should suffice for most professionals too. The DEWALT DW735 two speed thickness planer is one of the best thickness planers in use today. It is extremely powerful and is capable of handling any type of wood that you can feed it whether it is walnut, oak, or any type of exotic wood. Its portable size makes it easy to transport, and it has a two speed gear box which will enable you to adjust the feed speed for better cuts per inch. All in all, the Dewalt DW735 looks and feels like a dependable and efficient planer.
Just above the feed opening is a gauge that shows how much wood is being removed. After starting with more than 200 power tools and hundreds more accessories, they also offered hand tools for contractors by 2011. The DW735 is more obviously geared towards the more serious wood workers. This is why they don’t include the infeed and outfeed tables in the package.
I would definitely recommend this planer to anyone serious about their wood. Portable thickness planers have to squeeze a lot of power into a small footprint that can be reasonably moved around a shop or to a job site. But even within this limitation there are some substantial differences in size and weight of the machines we’ve tested. But every machine is capable of planing boards 12 to 13 inches wide and 6 inches tall. The specifics and the differences are show in the lists below. The big chip on this planer blade was caused by a hidden nail embedded in a board.
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.
The last gripe is that if you have the dust collection hood installed you can’t fold up the rear table. If you can plunk it down in one location you’ll be fine. It’s not going to burst your eardrums but it will assault your senses. If you had to run it for more than 10 minutes at a time you might want to consider ear plugs.
The two-gear speed control allows you a considerable degree of control over the power. First, it has a motorized fan that literally breaks up the debris as it leaves the cutter-head. It then blows the debris into one of the two included dust shrouds. The first dust shroud extends down to the shop floor and the second dust shroud can be connected to a dust collector hose or a vacuum hose.
I haven’t had to try and have the knives resharpened. The sharpening services I have used don’t get blades as sharp as I would with sandpaper and glass. I’ve run 12 inches of stuff like purpleheart dewalt Hand tools through it and it does bog down and cause some tearout. But like emart said, that’s to be expected in a lunchbox planer. I have the same planer and still have the original box.