forum thread Posted by riderbike37 • 2d ago
Jun 3, 2025 2:10 PM
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forum thread Posted by riderbike37 • 2d ago
Jun 3, 2025 2:10 PM
DEWALT Thickness Planer 13in 2 Speed 3 Knife with Mobile Stand - $699.99
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All kidding aside, this is the best benchtop planer for the money. You can pour in more to swap for a Shellix spiral cutting head if you have the money.
The cart is predrilled to accept both the 735 and the smaller lunchbox model. Make sure you wax the tables.
There are a lot of these on Marketplace. Can't tell you the number I've seen where "motor runs, but in-feed rollers need to be replaced." Chances are they ran a pressure treated board or something with a lot of resin and it clogged up the rollers. Clean them off, and you're good.
They plane wood to specific thicknesses. They will take 1/32 or 1/16 of an inch at a time from one side of a board. They will flatten the side that is planed (relative to the other side of the board, meaning they won't on their own make a twisted board flat).
It planes a surface. (Cuts / strips of a plane of wood).
In all seriousness if you ask AI to ask you how to use a jointer and planer to make lumber and what they do, it'll explain it better than I can.
With a little trickery and a little more wood wastage (depending on the board), it can start with a non-flat side, make the opposite side flat, and then flatten the first side. A jointer is faster and easier at flattening the first side, though.
Once you have two flat and parallel sides, it can make the board thinner between those sides.
It cannot make the other edge sides perpendicular relative to the faces. You need a jointer for that, or a jig for a saw.