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I've had this tool about six weeks now and I'm satisfied that it works as advertised. Cuts cleanly.Con's - As others have mentioned, the cord seems to often get in the way. I'm always afraid that I'm going to adjust the depth of my cut as I'm working just by holding onto the front handle. I have no experience or alternative planers to compare to, though, since the Dewalt is the first planer I've ever used. It just might be my paranoia. It's come in handy for some cabinetry work I've done recently and I've also used it to plane the boards on a new fence gate that swelled after heavy rains. I'm still learning how to use this tool to its best effect, but I'm pleased with my purchase so far. Also, I wish the depth adjustment was a separate function from the front handle.
The gate went from being unusable to moving freely after ~5 minutes work. Pro's - powerful and relatively quiet. This doesn't appear to actually happen, though I haven't needed to cut anything to great accuracy yet. Also, the edge guide seems kind of flimsy, but as I haven't really needed to use it yet, it may work just fine.
I purchased this to plane flat surfaces, with the expectation that it would do just that. The good is that it is very powerful and will create a clean cut on most any wood.The bad is that it cannot plane consistently. I fhould that:- the front and back shoes are not parallel, which leads to a constant tapered cut - every cut has one side deeper than the other side, no matter where I put pressure.- The planner cuts EVEN WHEN SET TO ZERO - I suspect this is because the cutter extends below the back (and front) shoe so that the planer cuts wood even if the setting is 0 -- the back shoe to be aligned with the cutter and the front shoe to be aligned with the cutter when at the 0 setting. - There is not way to adjust the front and back shoes to be parallel or level with each other Given the other reviews it appears maybe I have received a defective tool - I will be calling Dewalt about this.
The front and back shoes are not parallel - when the front shoe is at the 0 setting it slopes away from the cutter. I expect the back shoe to be aligned with the cutter and the front shoe to be aligned with the cutter when at the 0 setting.
I expected that I would get a good quality tool that had reasonable adjustments to make it accurate. What I got was a poor quality tool that can't plane consistently.
I bought this to plane some doors to size. The cutter extends below the back (and front) shoe so that the planer cuts wood even if the setting is 0.
The problems I encountered are: 1) back shoe is not ground flat, 2) cutter extends past the back shoe, 3) front and back shoes are not parallel. Maybe I'm expecting too much from this tool but I expected the front and back shoes to be ground flat but the back shoe was not - this leads to a tapered cut since the cutter is raised up when the back part of the shoe reaches the wood surface.
AFAICT there is no way to adjust the shoes or cutter to align them. I expected that the front and back shoes would be parallel similar to the way the front and back tables of a jointer are parallel.I don't know if these are problems with all portable power planers but it seems to me that you cannot reasonably plane when the tool is this misaligned.I previously bought and returned a Bosch planer where the cutter extended even more beyond the shoe than the DeWalt so maybe most planers are equally poorly built.
I cant believe I havent had this tool before now never again will I hand plane another door again. This planer is very easy to setup and with dial control made it real easy. The planer didnt even slow down going through paint. Love it.
I'm a supervisor of a furniture factory, and we are in a plain process of renewing tools, we are buying almost all branded DeWalt and it's been great., and the planner wasn't the exception, tought it was a small machine, it works perfectly and very clean shaped. very recommended. the only critic I make is that this product was sent without any long trip shipping consideration, just in its plain original box.
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