Wood Planer Tune
, the Digital Readout is designed to last for many years with no concerns of fatigue or need to recalibrate. The Digital Readout Unit itself is a very precise and durable unit made with quality parts. It uses standard 2032 watch-type batteries that will offer dewalt tools hundreds of hours of uninterrupted use. The DRO is also set to turn off after 5 minutes without use, but will return to the previous reading with a touch of a button. Quickly match board thickness to an existing dado or groove without repetitive test fits.
Changing blades is a necessary task for any thickness planer so we wanted to see how they compared. Before you go ahead and change dewalt tools blades that aren’t performing perfectly, take a look at something. You could save yourself time and money with this trick .
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.
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.
A four column carriage lock keeps the cutterhead in place when planing with it and prevent any movement that may cause snipe. Dust collection is easy with the DW734, as it comes equipped dewalt tools with dust hood which you can easily attach to a shop vac for effective dust collection. One of the most important feature of the DW735 planer is the 2 speed gear box it’s equipped with.
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 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.