How-To
Get the Most from Your Woodworking Planer
Expert techniques to make a planer cut safely and smoothly while avoiding snipe and tearout
A thickness planer is an essential shop machine to smooth and flatten boards. Learn how to use a benchtop planer at maximum capacity with tips from this comprehensive video. Roland Johnson covers safety, setup, and mechanics. He details how to read wood grain to minimize tearout and shares lessons on avoiding snipe.
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Rollie,
Can you address what I have heard referred to as 'chip dent' or 'chip beat'? I think it has to do with chips following the cutterhead around, getting caught under the infeed roller and then being pressed into the board's face. I have the same DeWalt planer you are working with in the video, and with either my cyclone dust collector attached or with the planer's fan blowing the chips out freely, I still get chip dent.
Zolton
Zolton
I had a similar problem, but found that the inlet cowling to the chip blower had an accumulation of resinous chips that were partially blocking the inlet. I cleaned it up and haven't had a problem since.
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Excellent video! This is one of the best I've seen so far. Thanks for the great tips and explanations.
I didn't have a planner for many years and I just had to make-do and sand a lot, but now that I have one, its been a huge improvement in my results. BTW, I went for about 2 years without the infeed/outfeed extensions, but now that I have them, I think they are a "must have".
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