Dewalt Planers
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.
With the benchtop planer turned off, lower the cutterhead onto the board to get a starting point. Remove the board, turn on the machine, and run the board through the planer. Continue to lower the cutterhead for each pass until you’ve shaved the board down to the desired height. This planer has a 15-amp motor that produces 8,500 RPMs. It has a two-knife cutterhead and a depth of cut of up to 1/8-inch.
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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 dewalt tools 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.
I don’t remember seeing this amount of detailing with the ejection system on any of the best planers. Over the last few months I’ve planed all kinds of wood from soft pine to hard maple, purple heart and even walnut. Each time I’ve planed the material the finish is so smooth it hardly even needs to be sanded. The ease in setting up and planing pieces of wood is incredibly impressive.
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.
Automatic carriage lock reduces the movement that causes snipe without the need for manual engagement by the user. Last week I was running some walnut thru my 735 and it came upon some wonky grain and bogged down and shut off. I let it cool down and pushed the reset circuit breaker ( and that’s what it is called). I found out that the 18 amp breaker becomes weaker and weaker, each time it trips.