Its a great planer. I have run lotsa board footage through one. The dust
collection...prolly works *best* when attached to another system. The
blades are definately fragile, but if you run fairly good wood (not highly
figured) they last a good while. Blades run about $50 and have good edge
two sides, so really it's $25 for each new set. For the money, I think it's
about the best there is, the next step is an industrial model...

For what its worth...
Schroeder


"Ellestad" wrote in message
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Does anyone have experience with the DW735 planer? The features look
terrific, especially the dust ejection feature since I won't have dust
collection available. I am concerned with the many posts complaining about
short-lived knives. Are there knife quality issues with this machine or
are
these guys getting the results of bad techniques? Are they expecting
industrial machine performance from a home-shop tool?

Thanks for any feedback.

Tim Ellestad