Many guys ask us about that, but we’re not a testing company, we don’t have the tools, resources or time to do long term testing. What we do takes so much time as it is, no one pays us to do this, we do it with volunteers and samples. In several years we’ll likely do it again as new models roll out. These need high volume dust collection to keep up with the massive amount of chips. We applied blue chalk to the surface to highlight the milling marks, and scallops, for a visual inspection. We also evaluated the smoothness by simply feeling the surfaces.
In particular, we adjusted the in-feed and out-feed tables to ensure each were level with the planer bed. Benchtop thickness planers are an essential piece of equipment for any woodshop. These planers are an excellent option for small home woodshops and contractors that need a portable option. While not big and powerful as full size shop thickness planers, benchtop thickness planers are still very capable of effectively planing a wide range of wood products. Thickness planers allow users to purchase a wider range of raw wood materials and mill the wood to the exact dimensions needed for a project.
The DeWalt 735 can also accept a helical cutter head instead of the standard 3-blade setup. While one of those cutter heads is half or more the cost of the entire planer, they are supposed to last for years, paying back their high cost over time. Coming in at a whopping 92 pounds, this benchtop planer is the kind of tool that you put on a bench or stand and leave there.
The Dewalt DW734 is a great alternative to their step up model the Dw735 at a more affordable price point. It’s also lighter than the DW735 making it more “portable” at 80 lbs. Also this model comes with in feed out feed tables included meaning you don’t have to purchase them separately like you do with DW735.
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You will want to follow good standard practice of finishing your boards with a few light smoothing cuts with a very sharp, delicately set smooth plane. Honestly it was wishful thinking to be able to sharpen the dewalt Hand tools blades. We might take and old set and give it a go for the heck of it like Rick is going to do. The 734 has held up well in our very humid Florida swamp environment and we have had fun using it to surface and dimension lumber for lots of different projects.
The order must be placed before 6pm local time on a day when the Participating Beta Test Program Retailer is open to be eligible for next business day delivery. These Beta Test Program Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and Ace Hardware Corporation (“Ace” OR “we” OR “us”). But then again you won’t get results as with a DeWalt product. This is the reason why serious wood workers go with DeWalt planers.