On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:09:36 GMT, "mel"
wrote:

bought the new dewalt planer this week and was impressed last night on how
well it sized some 5/4 maple and walnut with virtually no snipe. So today I
was going to plane some walnut strips down to 1/4"x1"x14" finished product.
I'm feeding the strips though and they keep coming out with a severe snipe
about 2" from trailing end. So I started playing with it at the expense of
$4/bf material and found that when I fed 3 strips through at a time sniped
was drastically reduced but still present. When I fed 3 strips through and
fed the next three before the first exited no more snipe. HOWEVER, at 14"
you gotta run back and forth and look rather silly not to mention probably
not the safest thing to do on an expoxied garage floor with sawdust.




I've used this trick for many years. It works great. I also learned
the trick about very slightly raising the last board as it comes out
of the planer. Position your planer so that the boards are waist to
chest high to make feeding and unloading easier. Planers need a DC,
for super clean surfaces and safety. I think my planer is the noisest
machine in the shop, ever since the router was placed in the router
table.