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How do I choose a thickness planer?
What to Consider When Choosing the Best Benchtop Planers
- Motor. A benchtop planer’s motor needs enough power to get the job done.
- Blade. Thickness planer blades, also known as knives, come in two styles: straight and spiral.
- Cutting Depth.
- Allowance.
- Snipe.
- Gauge and Depth Stop.
- Speed.
- Dust Collection.
What’s the difference between DW735 and DW735X?
The only difference between the DW735X and the DW735 is that the DW735X comes with infield and outfeed tables for supporting the work piece, and an extra set of planer knives for the cutterhead. While the DW735 is just the planer machine without the infeed and outfeed tables and the extra cutterhead knives.
Can a planer be used to remove paint?
I would recommend running all of the boards through on an old set of blades at the smallest cut to take off the paint. If it isn’t a latex based paint it will likely ruin a set of blades. Basically you just want to skim off as much paint and as little wood as you can get away with.
Can you use a thickness planer on painted wood?
It is okay to plane most types of painted wood but the blades may dull faster. For safety and environmental reasons, planing painted wood with lead based or cementitious (waterproofing) paint is NOT RECOMMENDED.
Can you put stained wood through a planer?
A: You could plane off an old finish, but it’s not worth the risk. Planer cutterheads can generate sufficient friction to soften such finishes as polyurethane, gumming up their knives.
What is the tool called that shaves wood?
A drawknife (drawing knife, draw shave, shaving knife) is a traditional woodworking hand tool used to shape wood by removing shavings. It consists of a blade with a handle at each end.
Can you sand out snipe?
So just sand (or hand plane) the surface down until the snipe is removed. If you’re hand planing use stop shavings where you plane the centre section only, until you’re down to about the level of the sniped areas and then go for full-length shavings.