DeWalt Heavy-Duty 12 1/2" Portable Thickness Planer DW733

Pros: adjustments are relatively easy
Cons: heavy, high vibration, no ready out of the box as boasted

Portable and planer seem words at opposite sides of a spectrum. Planers are traditional very heavy, immovable beasts which require a substantially sized shop and, quite frankly, a substantial pocketbook. An investment, to be sure, but...

Pros: Clean, accurate cuts, NO SNIPE!
Cons: None really

After reading the other reviews I felt I had to write this one. A portable thickness planer is intended to provide sized lumber in a shop or on a job site, as needed. As a portable, it much run on a 15- or 20amp 120v circuit, as not many jobsites have...

Pros: Ergonomics, controls, smooth finish
Cons: Vibration, Snipe Lock, Durability, runs hot, blade changes

Back in '98 I bought this planer to replace my rapidly disintegrating Delta. Portable planers have advanced leaps and bounds since the early 90s, but keep in mind that back in 1996 this was considered an exceptional machine for the money... and it ...

Pros: Lots of power and smooth finish
Cons: dust shoot design and seperate purchase

My growing interest and skills in woodworking was demanding boards in materials and thicknesses I could not buy at reasonable prices. So I decided to get a thickness planer without knowing any more than that. After some looking around and asking...

Pros: Excellent performance; rugged; well thought out
Cons: Dust chute sits a little close to exit table

I bought this planer because I only had room for a small portable. A larger machine with a moving table and fixed cutterhead assembly would be less prone to snipe than a portable, which has a fixed table and a moving cutterhead assembly. But this one...

Pros: Reasonable Price, Fairly portable
Cons: Dust chute, VERY LOUD (most planers are)

I don't wish to sound too critical of this machine since I know that my demands probably exceed the intent of the manufacturer. I use the planer for a wide variety of woods, including everything from eastern white pine to hard maple and walnut, as the...

Pros: Solid, reliable and produces great results
Cons: Very loud when running

Being a period furnituremaker and also living in the northeast has several effects. First, I used to do EVERYTHING by hand, including planing. Second, being of yankee mentality (which means I'm cheap) I usually look to buy raw lumber at auctions and...

Pros: Easy to use, virtually "snipeless," works out of the box,
Cons: Dust chute/shavings, cuts deeper than 1/16" may be a problem

MY REQUIREMENTS
I build hammered dulcimers out of walnut, rock maple, and other hard woods. Sometimes I buy 5/4" boards that I need to plane to 7/8 or 3/4". Maximum board length is 48". The finished board needs to be silky smooth. Occasionally I...

Pros: Solid construction, locking cutterhead, four-post stability, on tool storage.
Cons: Very heavy to lift at 80 pounds

I love my DeWalt733. I use it remove paint from old boards, resurface salvaged oak and walnut from old cabinets, making thinner wood for scroll sawing. I have owned it for three years and am very pleased with the locking, four column cutter-head, and the...

Pros: Quick and easy to use and to store. Will save time and money on trips to the lumber yard.
Cons: Noisy and under powered when planing Oak.

I bought the Dewalt planer to replace an old industrial planer. At first I was a little concerned about the size of the tool, but I have since found the size to be one of its best features.

My first task with this planer impressed me. I...

Pros: Easy on the eyes, great finishes
Cons: Better as a shop machine

I own a small woodshop, and needed a machine to plane various types, and lengths of wood. As you walk into the tool section of a store, there it sits. Bright yellow, just begging to be taken home. I must admit, the appearance of the machine just might...

Pros: very little snipe
Cons: Infeed, bed, and outfeed tables are not level and can't be adjusted

For shorter lengths of wood, this was a great machine and did a good job. But, I tend to run long boards (10' - 14') through, and I found that the setup of the infeed, bed, and outfeed tables was a real hassle. The infeed table is angled upward...

Pros: Excellent finish( requires minimal sanding), very little or no snipe, great price, very reliable
Cons: cant think of any

I purchased the Dewalt DW733 planer for a little under $400cdn.(300ishUS). Dewalt is trying to sell their old planers to make way for the new 3 blade planers they have introduced. I thought it was cheap enough so I bought it. When I got home first ...

Pros: Includes extra blades and dust chute
Cons: Didn't include legs when Delta did

Having never used a planer before, I was concerned with all the talk of snipe. Nothing to worry about with the DeWalt. I bought it took it out of the box and fired it up. Couldn't have been easier. The rough sawn red oak came out barely needing to be...

Pros: Nothing but good to say
Cons: Could use standard dust collector

What I like about this planner it does a very good job. It leaves little or no snips at the end of the board. The level of the blade is very level so as not to leave one side thinner or thicker than the other side. The ease of use is very good and quite...