Well, I bought one of those Dewalt 735 planers when Amazon hiccupped and
dropped the prices for 20 minutes.
Today, I finally unpacked it and gave it a small test. IT was awesome!!!! I
took it out of the box, installed the handle, plugged it in, adjusted the
depth of cut and started planning. It was fantastic. Smooth, quiet, chips
were shooting out in a straight line for 6 feet. It is sitting on the floor
and I now have to figure out what kind of stand to make.
I also came home with the Ridgid OSS from HD yesterday and set that up this
morning. It went together very quickly and I started to use. I needed the
spindle function but wound up using the spindle from the sanding belt
instead.
I am building a replacement ladder back chair upper section for the local
university and needed to sand the pattern for routing .
So today I used the Excalibur sliding table and every other tool in the
shop. I think a great first day in the new shop.
max

Nothing like ending the day feeling after a good workout in the wood shop
I just finished repairing some chairs. Although a little tedious, still
somewhat rewarding. I even used a few hand tools
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"max" wrote in message
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Well, I bought one of those Dewalt 735 planers when Amazon hiccupped and
dropped the prices for 20 minutes.
Today, I finally unpacked it and gave it a small test. IT was awesome!!!!
I
took it out of the box, installed the handle, plugged it in, adjusted the
depth of cut and started planning. It was fantastic. Smooth, quiet, chips
were shooting out in a straight line for 6 feet. It is sitting on the
floor
and I now have to figure out what kind of stand to make.
I also came home with the Ridgid OSS from HD yesterday and set that up
this
morning. It went together very quickly and I started to use. I needed the
spindle function but wound up using the spindle from the sanding belt
instead.
I am building a replacement ladder back chair upper section for the local
university and needed to sand the pattern for routing .
So today I used the Excalibur sliding table and every other tool in the
shop. I think a great first day in the new shop.
max

Nice. How did the Excalibur end up working out for you and your shop
space?

I used the sliding table a couple of times )just because I could). It seems
handy. I am going to have to cut two feet off the right side so I can keep
the sliding table. That will leave me with a 40 inch rip to the right so I
think it will be fine.
I set up the Ridgid OSS and I love it. It is a little strange in that the
belt direction is clockwise and I have to stand on the other side to sand. I
guess the ones we had in the shop ran the other way.
max

Nice. How did the Excalibur end up working out for you and your shop
space?

I have about the same rip capacity due to space restrictions. It's OK
99% of the time. The other 1% you just deal with however you can.