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   USANigel | Dec 17, 2006 11:08pm | #1

   anyone?

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   ltm_ww | Dec 17, 2006 11:33pm | #2

   I haven't tried them yet but I have read good reports on the Infinity replacement blades. Plus they can be resharpened. I plan to order a set after the first of the year.

   http://www.infinitytools.com/products.asp?dept=1111

   
   

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   Edited 12/17/2006 3:34 pm ET by ltm_ww

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   GHR | Dec 17, 2006 11:56pm | #3

   "These knives can be resharpened with a diamond hone."The same can be said for the Dewalt blades.

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   USANigel | Dec 18, 2006 12:05am | #4

   I'm happy to sharpen any tool or blade edge, but I would like to get some life out of the edge.

   Just yesterday I installed new blades only to lose the edge in 20' of cutting some old pine.

   Where's the carbide??

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   GHR | Dec 18, 2006 12:38am | #5

   I cannot address cutting pine but ...I have a hundred bdft of oak that I planed both sides of without sharpening or honing the blades on my 735. I don't know how much lumber I had run in before or after that job. I use mostly cherry now and cannot remember when I last looked at the blades.

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   arw01 | Dec 18, 2006 06:07am | #6

   I've never flipped the blades on my 735 yet. I have a couple of ridges of about a thou that come out with a few swipes of 220, or a pass with a cabinet scraper.

   Two years ago I did a 100 bd feet of bull pine that was rough cut and air dried on top of all the beech, oak, and cherry I've run through. Been pleased with the planer. Someday will have to replace a feed roller and some of the pine was WAY thicker than other pieces and hung up in the feed maw.

   Alan

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   Frozen | Dec 18, 2006 07:40pm | #7

   My experience has been middling: I had a rapid degrade from pristine cuts to a few minor notches, but no further noticeable degradation.

   From the variable replies, I suspect the problem may be with the wood used by the original poster. If the rough wood has been sitting exposed, it's possible that dirt or similar crud could be embedded in the rough surface.“Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”
   Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

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   mowog77 | Dec 19, 2006 12:14am | #8

   The problem is not with the planer or the blades...I have a 735 as does a friend of mine and both ahve seen thousands of feet of lumber without a problem.

   I haven't flipped my blades yet....I've literally run everything from curly maple, hard maple, cherry, walnut, ash, beech, pine, sassafras, dogwood, cedar, you name it.
   I have run no less than three thousand feet and that at multiple passes.

   Maybe the wood you are running through it is incredibly dirty?