Snipes on my brand new Dewalt 735 planer
Streamline
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I love everything about the Dewalt 735 planer, other than the leading and trailing snipes that I get on every pass at about 1.5″ at each end. I tried lifting up at outfeed, pulling down, leaving it alone, etc… Nothing seems to work. Is there an adjustment or technique I am missing?
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I'm responding not because I know how to fine tune your planer but because snipe has been one of my biggest 'oh nooooos '. I really love the job my dewalt [2 blade] planer does but i've always had to lift on the infeed and the outfeed. It took some practice to know just how much and when to lift but after a while it was pretty easy to consistantly get it right. If that does not work {and you said it did not} you could always start with stock a little longer and cut off the sniped end. I'm sure you will get better responses but i thought i would share what has been working for me for the past 10 years or so..
I'm sure you will find a solution that works and i am sure you will really enjoy having a fine piece of equipment like the DeWalt 735 in your shop..
weavilswoodshop
Do you have the optional in/out tables for that planer?? Try gradually adjusting a little higher and a little higher, see if you find a sweet spot.....
I do get snipe sometimes and I've actually noticed it more since I changed over from the stock blades to the thicker carbide Infinity blades. I've also noticed more snipe when working with dull blades. Usually, I can prevent snipe (at least noticeable snipe) by keeping the stock firmly against the bed on the infeed side and applying upwards pressure when it is coming out. I do not have the accessory tables.
Same here.....snipe is my first notice of dull blades. Then I start to get feeding halts and jerks. Not sure what indicators happen after that!
Here's my Snipe Solution
I don't have the in/out table, but here's what I have done to eliminate the snipes:
Using the same thickness material (from the same stock), i feed in my scrap piece first, then about 5 inches later (after knowing that the first piece will end up with the snipe), i feed in my real stock. Then just before the end of my real stock is reached, I feed in another scrap stock of the same thickness in parallel. That way, the front and back snipes are delivered to the scrap pieces. Annoying that I have to spend 2 pieces of perfectly good wood to work around this. I was hoping there was a setting or magic wand I could use. From the sound of this, there isn't one. $650 for quality equipment and they can't solve this? I'm surprised.
I have owned a Dewalt 735 for about 3 years and have had good luck with it's operation. On occaision I have experienced some snipe. The most effective solution I have found was slight upward pressure on the stock both as it is entering the machine and as it exits. I do not have the extention tables but would imagine that if they were installed and adjusted correctly then I would not need to do this. When I use this technique the snipe is almost undetectable and nothing a pass from a sharp handplane won't cure.
Good Luck!
Bob
Raising slightly the infeed and outfeed tables was a suggestion made by John White a few months ago, and made the snip less significant. Reducing the thickness of the cut on the last pass or two also reduces the height of the snipe, leaving less hand planing. I've become resigned to at least some snipe as the nature of the beast.
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