Apologies in advance for yet another question on which tool to buy but
here goes anyway. Home Depot has the Ryobi AP1300 planer for $249 plus
tax and Amazon has the Dewalt 733 for $299 with another discount of
$25 so $274 out the door, no tax, no shipping fees, plus an extra set
of knives and the dust hood. Basically the Dewalt is $8 more plus I
would get an extra set of knives. On the surface I would buy the
Dewalt but Home Depot has an offer that ends tomorrow if you purchase
$299 or more on your HD card you make no payments for a year. So...I
throw in a new jigsaw with the Ryobi planer and I've got two new tools
to use for free for a year. Should I just buck up and spend the $ now
and go for the Dewalt or is the Ryobi a comparable, or superior?
machine that I can pick up tomorrow and pay for next July. I've been
very happy with my purchase of a Dewalt table saw, the 744 that I
bought a couple of years ago. Your opinions are encouraged.

Dale

Hmmm, a toaster company
(http://www.blackanddeckerappliances....CODIV=0191&T1=
APP%2BT2&FNM=02&UREQA=N) or a company that likes to use universal motors???
How often do you intend to use it and will you be using it to earn $$$???
If your use is serious, I'd get a Makita 2012NB or a Delta. If the vendor
will let you plane a board, get the one with the least snipe as that
translates into feet of wasted lumber.
Personally, I own the older Makita 2012 and think it is a very intelligent
design and get 3" of snipe even when I haven't used it in awhile (you get
better with practice, too).


"Dale" wrote in message
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Apologies in advance for yet another question on which tool to buy but
here goes anyway. Home Depot has the Ryobi AP1300 planer for $249 plus
tax and Amazon has the Dewalt 733 for $299 with another discount of
$25 so $274 out the door, no tax, no shipping fees, plus an extra set
of knives and the dust hood. Basically the Dewalt is $8 more plus I
would get an extra set of knives. On the surface I would buy the
Dewalt but Home Depot has an offer that ends tomorrow if you purchase
$299 or more on your HD card you make no payments for a year. So...I
throw in a new jigsaw with the Ryobi planer and I've got two new tools
to use for free for a year. Should I just buck up and spend the $ now
and go for the Dewalt or is the Ryobi a comparable, or superior?
machine that I can pick up tomorrow and pay for next July. I've been
very happy with my purchase of a Dewalt table saw, the 744 that I
bought a couple of years ago. Your opinions are encouraged.

Dale

George responds:

Hmmm, a toaster company

or a company that likes to use universal motors?

ALL the lightweight planers use universal motors.

I own the older Makita 2012 and think it is a very intelligent
design and get 3" of snipe even when I haven't used it in awhile (you get
better with practice, too).

Long ago, I had a Makita and mostly had trouble with it eating belts, which
were no joy to change. I've had most of the others over time, currently have a
Ryobi and get virtually NO snipe, not 3".

That head lock makes an immense amount of difference.

Charlie Self

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation
in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
Will Rogers

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 00:09:58 -0400, "George"
wrote:

Personally, I own the older Makita 2012 and think it is a very intelligent
design and get 3" of snipe even when I haven't used it in awhile (you get
better with practice, too).

I have a yellow and black planer, made by a toaster company, that gets
unmeasurable snipe and leaves a beautiful surface. This surface only
needs a light scraping or 120 grit sanding to be ready to finish. I
must be very practiced. G

Barry

"B a r r y B u r k e J r ."

I have a yellow and black planer, made by a toaster company,

Yes, but they were a tool company long before buying the GE appliance line.
Sad thing is, they applied some of the high volume, low cost techniques to
the tools also. The B & D reputation is not what it is was 30 years ago.
Ed

I went with the Ryobi even though the Dewalt is closing out at 249 and
even lower at some places. I am an occasional woodworker and I like
the idea of indexed blades on the Ryobi. The one time that I had to
change then, it it only took about 10 minutes. From what I understand
the Dewalt does not have indexed blades so changing them can take some
time.

Also the dust collection on the Ryobi worked well. I have the Ridgid
6.25 HP 2in1 shop vac and it is able to keep up with the planer as
well as my Jet table saw and Jet 6" jointer. Of course it's only one
at a time so I have to keep moving it around. Grizzley sells a
converter to go from a 4" dust port to the 2-1/4" that is tapered,
which I needed for the Jet tools, but the Ryobi planer has connections
for 2 & 4" dust systems. The only downside is you will be dumping the
shop vac every 60-80 bf. I was taking off about 1/16 at a pass.

I would also recommend you get two of the workforce rollers to help
feed the from the infeed and outfeed sides. $19.95 each. I would
also recommend the workforce stand, I think it was about $25.00. I put
a bag of cement on the bottom shelf and the planer on the top and had
zero vibration issues.

Also if you have not been reading the post, Dewalt is comming out with
there new model later this year.

You won't go wrong with either tool, so get what you feel is the right
one. There have been lots of post on this goup and reviews that are
good to both machines.

Good luck and have fun.

I had heard that about Delta, but which model? They have several now.

"William E. Prisavage" wrote in message
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delta-no snipe

I forget the model #.It's about 3 yrs old
12 71/2 ' model single speed with the head lock.
It has NEVER sniped and sometimes I don't even bother to lock the head.
The newer 13" ones look good with the reset to previous thickness setting.
"George" wrote in message
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I had heard that about Delta, but which model? They have several now.

"William E. Prisavage" wrote in message
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delta-no snipe

Wow Larry, you have one of those too... I think one day one will be in a
museum as they were the first of thier kind. BTY, I use the same method to
prevent snipe but have never used additional infeed or out feed rollers even
with boards as long as 12'.


"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message
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In article ,
leah says...
I've had most of the others over time, currently have a
Ryobi and get virtually NO snipe, not 3".

Even my old Ryobi AP10 has little or no snipe if I lift the ends on entry
and exit. And it has no head lock! I do use the external infeed and
outfeed rollers.

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