13 In Three Knife, Two Speed Thickness Planer
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The automatic carriage stop feature clearly solves this long standing design issue for planers. I can only hope that DEWALT continues offering this great product for many years to come. Material removal gauge and extra-large thickness scale deliver accurate cuts with every pass. 19-3/4″ cast aluminum base is 2X more rigid than a standard 10″ base and folding tables. Fan-assisted chip ejection vacuums chips off of the cutter-head and exhausts them out of the machine. If it were me, I would use the continuity part of your tester and go thru each switch/device, from power cord to motor and see where the problem is.
Unless the raised ridges are wider than 1/16”, this small operation usually restores smooth planer performance for a while. You’ve essentially misaligned the nicks in the blades. The nicks used to line up , but they don’t align any more so the ridge disappears. There’s no question that the 13-inch DeWalt 735 benchtop planer is expensive.
More specifically, we wanted to know which planer pulled more power and which one had the best feed performance relative to its no-load condition. Most of the planers utilize a bolt to adjust the table vertically with a captured nut to hold the adjustment bolt in place. All of the units had a similar table adjustment but one. We were very impressed with the Makita planer and its setscrew adjustment.
It gives the wood a nice, smooth finish and the thickness is accurate. It’s heavy enough that it doesn’t jump around or vibrate excessively. You will get snipe with it unless your board is well supported at both the infeed and outfeed of the machine. That being said, even without that good support the snipe will only be on the last inch or so of the board and can sometimes be sanded out.
If you still have questions about your benchtop planer, refer to your user’s manual or contact the manufacturer. Snipe refers to a line, sometimes very noticeable, left on the front or back of dewalt accessories a workpiece where the planer has removed more material than throughout the field of the board. It’s an unsightly element that many benchtop planers leave on workpieces that pass through them.
So it was our responsibility to get all the lumber down to the same thickness and that’s where the Dewalt planer came into play. The extension tables are sufficiently long for a planer of this size. The few settings the planer does have are easily fiddled with. The dust collection hood that comes with the planer works well and has adapters for other hose sizes. If not it will spew gobs of shavings out the front and back and be very messy. Below is a table showing how each of the 8 planers stacked up in the 4 categories that we counted in our final evaluation.
Speed 2 increases the automatic feed speed, lowering the number of cuts per inch to only 96, but makes dimensioning lumber quicker. This 13-inch, two-speed thickness planer from DEWALT has a 15-amp motor that creates a 10,000-RPM cutterhead speed and two feed speeds . It has a 13-inch-wide capacity, as well as a 6-inch height capacity. The tool has a three-blade cutterhead and features DEWALT’s fan-assisted chip ejecting for hooking up to your dust collection system.
Powerful 15 amp, 20,000 rpm motor of the woodworking planer handles larger, deeper cuts in hardwoods. I took a lot of time to search on various social media sites to determine what other users had to say about the DeWalt DW735X thickness planer. The company offers a 90-day money-back guarantee and one year of free service. The thickness planer is also covered by a three-year limited warranty. As mentioned throughout this DeWalt thickness planer review, the DW735X can handle boards that are up to 13-inches wide.
Thankfully I stocked up as they’ve gone up a good bit since. However, I had to send the first planer back due to a quality control issue at the factory. The belt pullys were misaligned and ate the belt in about 10 minutes. The second one has been good, but I’m done with Delta as their quality has definitely gone down hill lately.