If you need to flatten and even out some boards, you need a good wood planer. That said, finding a good machine for a decent price, one that works well and has the features you need, is easier said than done. However, that is exactly what we are here for today, to review one such wood planer, the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer.

DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer 

The DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is a mid-range wood planer designed for all sorts of projects. It’s compact, quite portable, durable, and it definitely gets the job done.

Who is this product for?

The DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is designed for DIY people, carpenters, and repairmen too. It’s designed to be used at home or on the jobsite, for smaller boards. It’s a wood planer than can handle boards of 13 inches wide, making it ideal for a variety of projects.

What’s included?

When you purchase the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer, you get a wood planer, a benchtop model, but no, the bench, stand, or table is not included here. However, you do get a powerful 15-amp wood planer with a triple knife cutter head, infeed and outfeed tables, and much more.

Overview of features

The DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer has a lot of features worth mentioning, so let’s get right to it. First off, this thickness planer features a 15-amp motor that delivers more than enough power to deal with any kind of wood. It features a 20,000 RPM motor with a cutterhead speed of 10,000 RPM. It’s certainly quite a powerful wood planer.

Next, the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is fairly large in terms of its cutting capacity. This planer can handle wood as wide as 13 inches and as deep as 6 inches, which for a benchtop planer is not too bad. Moreover, the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer can cut to a depth of 1/8 inches with a single pass, and the cutting depth is fully adjustable with the depth adjustment lever.

What is also pretty nice about the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is that it is a smaller benchtop planer that can easily be taken from one jobsite to another. Now, it’s not the lightest machine around, but still lightweight enough for us to consider it portable. It’s compact nature is pretty convenient in terms of storage and for using in tight spaces.

Another impressive feature of the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is that it features dual cutting speeds. You can choose to operate at 96 CPI or 179 CPI, so you can adjust the speed to suit your needs.

The fact that the cutterhead features 3 knives means that it can easily handle all types of wood, plus these knives last much longer than with most other wood planers out there. Overall, it’s a very durable and long-lasting wood planer that should provide you with many years of use.

Moreover, once the knives finally wear out, the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer comes with an extra set included. What you also get is an infeed table, as well as an outfeed table.

You also get a fan-assisted chip ejection vacuum to suck wood chips and sawdust away from the blades, which you can easily connect it to a dust vacuum. All in all, we would say that the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is hands down one of the best options around.

Tutorial

The DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is very easy to use and there is really not much to know here. For one, make sure that you set it up on a flat and stable surface, and if possible, secure it to a bench or table for use. After, simply select the cutting depth and speed that work best for your need, turn the planer on, and slowly feed the wood through it. It’s all quite straightforward.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Multiple cutting depths
• Dual speed design
• High quality feed tables
• Good dust removal

Cons

Some small issues with the ease of changing the cutting depth.

Alternatives

Maybe the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is not what you are looking for. Maybe it’s too large and not portable enough, in which case, something like the PORTER-CABLE PC60THP 6-Amp Hand Planer might be better for you. On the other hand, if you need something much larger and stationary, the 15" JET Helical Cutterhead Planer might be best.

Conclusion

When all is said and done, the DEWALT DW735X Thickness Planer is one of the better benchtop planers out there. It’s fairly durable, it’s fast and powerful, and has plenty of great features, all for a pretty reasonable price.