hello,

DC is realy good with a planner. The planner is the biggest chip producer in
the shop as far as I know, and will fill up a full trashcan in less than 1
hour.
the HF DC is back on sale and I will be buying one this afternoon!!!!!

a shop vac will not handle the chip load of a planner.
my planner (dewalt 735 from memory) has a fan assisted chip ejection, so
what I did (in the meantime) is make a trashcan cover with some fabric, make
a 2" hole in it, and use that as a chip collection, but it is not the most
eficient (but mostly work).

cyrille

"Pop" wrote in message
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Hmmm, lots of good input; thanks, all who've responded so far. I'll chaw
that over & see what spits out.

One couple Q's if I may: How important is a vacuum attachment for either?
Will a shop-vac handle it or does it take a real DC? I'm wanting to make
this portable to roll it out of the way when it's not in use.

In a limited space:
My ideal location would be to have the outfeed side feed out and over my
wood lathe, above the heads. I could easily put a "helper" roller on the
lathe table for long boards, too that way.
But, it'd be about 42" floor to wood. That might be convenient for a
planer? but I don't think a jointer would be much use at that height.
Or is it too high for either?

I have an alternative, but it'd require opening the door and letting the
outfeed feed into the garage parking area but it's cold/hot there
depending on the season. Not a deal breaker, but if I could keep it
inside it'd be more comfortable working with it. My shop's only about 12
x 22 feet with 8' of that 22 down to 8' wide vs 12. Wife won't give up
the sewing room on the other side g. Yet.

Pop




"Pop" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Birthday coming up, and I'm in a bit of a quandary. I've been given the
opportunity to pick up either a planer OR a jointer (not both) and I'm
not sure which to go for first or which would be the most useful. I also
have little experience with either tool.

I'm leaning pretty strongly toward the 13" Dewalt Planer as opposed to
their jointer. I don't do much edge gluing, and what little bit I've
done has always come out OK using a good blade on my TS, so that directs
me toward the planer. I think I'm more interested in getting repeatable
thicknesses and smooth finishes to minimize sanding, plus as long as it's
reasonably straight, it looks like a planer makes almost any type of wood
usable.

My woodworking skills run from fair to good, probably more good than
fair. Most people are suitable impressed that I can get an ego boost
from showing off my work, so I assume I'm not too bad. I see a lot of my
mistakes, but others don't seem to.
Since I have no actual experience since my high school daze many many
year ago, I thought I'd see what the folk here think. Am I right in
thinking that a planer would make the better tool for me at the moment?

Basically, all I see a jointer being good for is making a straight edge,
not that I mean that's not important! But I think the practicality of
being able to slice 1/16 or 1/32 or less, to a max of 1/8, of materials
from 3/4" to 13" would sure make a nice tool.
Oh, and yes, I understand what snipe is, and that a warped piece of
wood will still be warped after planing it where that's not the case with
a jointer; done enough window shopping to be able to see that.
But, a jointer is rather limited to not much more than straigtening and
edge, right? Wrong?

Whatever your thoughts, happy to hear them.

Oh yeah, a little sidelight: While perusing the local Ace Hardware this
morning, I noticed a no-name "Planner" sitting next to the Dewalt
planers. I wonder what kind of plane job a 'planner' would do? ;-)
It -was- a lot cheaper; wonder why? g

TIA,

Pop