Heavy-Duty 13" Three Knife, Two Speed Thickness Planer - DW735

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• Model: DW735
• Shipping Weight: 93lbs
• Manufactured by: DeWalt

What the pros are saying about this tool...

The DeWalt is the leader of the pack:

"Let me get this out of the way right at the start because I rarely say this: I can't find any feature missing (and have little to complain about)on this planer. DEWALT has done a nice job making a user-friendly, ergonomically intelligent high-quality planer."
"Ultimately the DeWalt planer walks away with our highest praise and Editor’s Choice award. Its strong innovations and user friendly design are only icing on the very impressive quality finish left on the material."

-Popular Woodworking 13" Portable Planers We test 7 premium machines to find out which one belongs in your shop by David Thiel

The best machine was the DeWalt DW735:

"By our testing, the best machine was the DeWalt DW735. It's a powerful tool that cuts smoothly and is easy to use. The three-knife, two-speed cutterhead provides versatility, and its powerful chip blower worked great. We liked its compact and rugged design for carting from job to job, and its solid metal base made it easier to set up versus the other models with folding tables that needed adjusting. Both in the shop and on the road, the DW735 is a capable, well-built planer–a real smooth operator and the top tool in our test."

-Tools of the Trade: Tool Test Category Winner: Solid Surfacers: Test results for seven new planers By Brent Hull

We crown the DW735 as the new Top Tool in portable planers:

"The most eye-popping of the three is DEWALT's DW735 13" Benchtop Planer (at 92 pounds, it pushes the limits of "portable"). For starters, it doesn't look like any other portable planer on the market. In fact, it functions more like a small stationary planer. The DW735 combines two features we praised in our earlier test--dual feed speeds and fan-assisted chip removal--with another not found on any other portable planer: a three-knife cutterhead. This extra knife instantly improves the smoothness of the cut, boosting the number of cuts per inch by 50 percent....
It cuts smoother, and with less snipe, than even the Delta 22-580, the best performer in our most recent test (WOOD magazine, issue 148). For this reason, we crown the DW735 as the new Top Tool in portable planers."

-Wood Magazine issue 151: Product Review: Tool Buyers Update: 3 Hot New Portable Planers

The DeWalt #735 refused to do anything but perform perfectly:

"The DeWalt #735 refused to do anything but perform perfectly with the exception of the one small instance of snipe I caused by feeding the board in at an angle. It has plenty of power driving the cutter head, the enhanced chip ejection is the best I have seen on a planer and the finish produced in both cutting speeds is first rate. The cut depth indicator is both handy and accurate, making first cuts less of an adventure. The large depth crank is smooth and makes sneaking up on a precise final dimension very easy. The depth stop system is easy to use, dead-on accurate and will make many production-type tasks fast. Even changing or reversing the two-sided blades is quick, accurate and simple, something many other planers cannot match. This is an important point as some planers never seem to work as well after the first blade change. The DeWalt #735 performance does not suffer from those problems."

-NewWoodworker.com Tool Review: DeWalt 735 13" Heavy Duty Thickness Planer By Tom Hintz