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[Nicholas Carey]

My tool gloat: A Dewalt DW735 13 inch planer for $300 (retail is c. $650+).

http://www.plumbersurplus.com/images/prod/6/DeWALT-DW735-rw-74099-19947.jpg

(that's not me). Looks like it needs a new set of knives, which I picked up on the way home. Biggest shortcoming I can see is that it's called "portable". At 92 pounds, that's kind of stretching the definition a wee bit. But it looks like its built pretty solid.

[Paul Girouard]

Nice! We have one at work on the job site. Keep the bed waxed, sharp knifes in it and make light passes and it'll be a good machine for you.


If you can build a bench to mount it on , balancing it and the stock is a PITA . It's heavy to carry but for a planer it's really to light to trust just on a bench not bolted down.

At work we can't really do the bolt to a bench thing, hopefully you can.

Good luck with it.

Will you be using it on the trellis for your house? Hows that coming along?

[Nicholas Carey]

Nice! We have one at work on the job site. Keep the bed waxed, sharp knifes in it and make light passes and it'll be a good machine for you.


If you can build a bench to mount it on , balancing it and the stock is a PITA . It's heavy to carry but for a planer it's really to light to trust just on a bench not bolted down.

At work we can't really do the bolt to a bench thing, hopefully you can.

Good luck with it.

Will you be using it on the trellis for your house? Hows that coming along?That's the plan. I've got it figured out in my head. We have a house painter starting in mid June. I need to strip some siding off and install some ledgers -- I thought I'd make the painter's life a little easier and wait 'til the painting is done to put in the trellis proper.

I was thinking that building a bench for the planer would be a good idea. And adding fold-down infeed and outfeed extension tables would help prevent snipe.

[CByrneiv]

I'm actually thinking about that planer as a temporary solution for my shop, until I can afford a used powermatic (or similar) 15" helical cutter planer.

My big tool coup this year, was a Powermatic 54a jointer (http://www.powermatic.com/Products.aspx?Part=1791279DXK&cat=332160), on the powermatic mobile base (http://www.powermatic.com/Products.aspx?Part=2042374).

The guy bought it, used it for about 3 months, and decided he didn't need a big jointer anymore (he's a luthier, and his 4" benchtop jointer was fine), but he DID need a drum sander; so I snagged his jointer and stand ($1600 msrp) for $685, which covered what he needed to pay off on his Jet drum sander.

Even better, he threw in his Grizzly 6x48" belt and 9" disc sander on a stand with $30 worth of casters and a half dozen new belts and disks, for another $100 (about $500 msrp worth of stuff).

I'm trying to build up the cash for a used one of these (http://www.powermatic.com/Products.aspx?Part=1791213&cat=332116), or
an older VERY HEAVY and made in the us/canada/europe (I dont care about nationalism, I care about dimensional accuracy and parts) delta, northfield, general, parks, woodmaster, or tannewitz.

There's a half dozen currently for sale within 100 miles, all around $1500

[BETTY-B]

It's a sweet little(heavy)unit. I've been planing some clear cedar planking stock the last couple days with mine.

ADDED: It's actually a friends on extended loan.

[CByrneiv]

I was thinking that building a bench for the planer would be a good idea. And adding fold-down infeed and outfeed extension tables would help prevent snipe.

They actually sell a bench, and infeed and outfeed tables just for this planer... The bench looks pretty decent, but the in and outfeed tables look a little flimsy; also both are non-cheap ($50 for the tables, $150 for the bench).

I'm reasonably certain you could build something better on your own, routing a custom fit base flush to the platen, out of MDO or summat. The base plate of the planer is well shaped for doing so