Dewalt’s Benchtop Planer
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.
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.
I don’t buy a 1/2 ton truck when I need a 1 ton truck, what you experienced was a hobbyist grade piece of equipment ware out quickly doing probably pro level work. If you bought a 209HH you wouldn’t have to write a long review like this one. My point is I knew what I was going to do when I bought my truck 13 years ago, it still works fine. I bought my joiner its a 8″ PJ-882HH which is a phenomenal piece of equipment.
Because the hose enters the rear of the unit it sits directly above boards coming out the finished end of the planer. This means you’ve have to keep the hose lifted up and out of the way so the exiting board doesn’t run into the hose. This is a minor issue but one I’d like to see addressed in the next model. I scored this package with the dewalt planer stand a year or so ago for $599 on one of Home Depots one day deals. If one were interested in a stand, that’s the only comparable or better deal I’ve ever seen on this planer.
The only time it gave me any trouble was when i was planing 10” wide black locust slabs but that’s a tall order for anything that isn’t industrial. Another consideration when evaluating bench-top thickness planer performance is the surface finish. Bench-top thickness planers use a set of rotating blades to “shave” dewalt tools off the surface of the board being planed. The TBB Crew selected the maple wood for the snipe test. We thought the lighter color and tight grain structure of maple might show the location and the depth of any snipes better than the other woods. For this test, we set all of the planers to a uniform depth of 3/32”.
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Finishing with the best price is the Porter-Cable PC305PT at $320 and rounding up the most expensive is the Makita 2012NB at $650. Warranties are really important to some users, and many of you have asked us to include them in our reviews. Below is a list of the warranties applicable dewalt Hand tools to the planers we tested. While ranking the warranties might seem simple, we’ve decided to just list them rather than rank them. Ultimately, warranties can be a tough issue, and how easily you can get warranty service is likely to be as important as how many years the coverage is.
It is a three-blade planer with ready-Levelized infeed and outfeed benches. It features a four-column manual lockdown mechanism that reduces snipe and also keeps the timber in place for accurate cutting which gives you a very smooth finish. Soon I’ll also create a video review for this tool so you can see first hand what I mean about power!. I recently purchased some 8/4 Maple, Purple Heart and Walnut for cutting boards. I was blown away as I started my first pass at 1/16″ and the planer didn’t even moan. Board after board the DW735 chewed through layer after layer of wood with ease.
While manufacturers label most planers with ranges between 12 and 13 inches , this metric doesn’t tell the whole story. For example, a 12-inch planer can handle a board 12 inches in width, but that does not say how thick a piece of wood the planer can handle. A benchtop planer is very use-specific, meaning it only serves one purpose—and as a one-trick pony, it’s not the most common tool present in the average workshop. This Thickness Planer with Three Knife Cutter-Head is powered by a 15 amp, 20,000 RPM motor. Without a melamine board in the bottom, I pretty much get zero snipe.
The extra set of planer knifes that comes with the DW735X are also extra helpful as you can quickly swap out the old knives when they get dull and replace them with the new knifes. While the DW735 is just the planer machine without the infeed and outfeed tables and the extra planer knifes. The only difference between the DW735X and the DW735 is that the DW735X comes with infield and outfeed tables for the planer, and an extra set of planer knives for the cutterhead. One thing that DeWalt has done with the DW735 is add a built in blower for clearing wood shavings from the blades. It has a surprising amount air flow, and if used without some type of dust collector, it will shoot wood shavings everywhere. It does a wonderful job at keeping dust and shavings from building up on the blades, thus lengthening their life.