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DEWALT DW734 Heavy Duty 15 Amp 12-1/2-Inch Benchtop Planer | 
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| Brand: DeWALT
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $730.00
Buy New: $429.00
You Save: $301.00 (41%)
New (16) from $416.94
Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 5946
Media: Tools & Hardware
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 84.2
Dimensions (in): 24 x 17 x 21
MPN: DW734
Model: DW734
UPC: 028875207348
EAN: 0028875207348
ASIN: B0000CCXU6
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Powerful 15 Amp 10,000 RPM motor | | • | 4-column carriage lock | | • | Extra long infeed and outfeed tables | | • | weighs 80 pounds | | • | Includes dust hood; backed by a 3-year warranty |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The DeWalt DW734 Heavy Duty 15 Amp 12-1/2-inch Benchtop Planer comes with a powerful 15 Amp 10,000 RPM motor to handle larger, deeper cuts in hardwoods. Its three knife cutter-head provides 96 cuts per inch for one of the finest finishes of any portable planer. Disposable, reversible knives deliver 30-percent more knife life and make knife changes fast and easy. Other features include a 4-column carriage lock that drastically reduces the movement that causes snipe and extra long infeed and outfeed tables that provide 33-1/2 inches of material support. Also includes is a material removal gauge and thickness scale that delivers accurate cuts with every pass and a turret depth stop that allows users to return to their most frequently used depths with ease. This planer weighs 80 pounds. Backed by a 3-year warranty, this planer includes a dust hood.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Great intitially, Not designed for longevity. January 23, 2008
J. Terry (Boise, ID USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this planer a couple years ago to plane rough cut pine. It worked well out of the box and continued to do so for the first year. After about 1,000bf of mainly pine the drive rollers started having trouble pulling material throught the cutterhead. I should have taken notice at this point and determined the problem, I may have been able to prevent the problems I now have. The bushings that support the rollers are very cheap and not designed for much use as there is no way to keep them adequately lubricated. As a result the bushings siezed on the shafts destroying the shafts and causing the chain drive and sprockets to break. This is going to be a fairly expensive repair so I am simply going to do minimal repairs to get by until I can purchase a better designed planer.
nice lunchbox January 10, 2008
J. hain
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a quality lunchbox planer. If you are looking for super high quality planing work, you're a fool to buy this unit and except such performance. I use this planer to bring lumber down close to size, and then run it though a MM planer to get it to the exact thickness with near perfect results.
This is a lunchbox planer. Nothing more, nothing less. It works great at what it does and hasn't given me a problem. It actually takes a very nice thickness out per cut and leaves a pretty good edge.
If you wanted this planer as your standalone unit, you'd be very happy. Just don't expect what (apparently) some reviewers expect.....that is.... getting a finish cut left by a $2000 planer with Shelix cutterhead.
 Sweet little planer. January 9, 2008
Garage Junkie (Box Elder, SD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been planning on creating my own custom trimwork for my house and decided to get a planer. I had my mind set on the 13" 3 knife dewalt but when I saw that the 12 1/2" dewalt now has 3 knives I saved $150 and bought this one. I was not dissapointed, right out of the box the all settings were dead on. I have run a ton of wood including oak, maple, walnut, yellowheart, purpleheart, redwood, mahogany ect. I just got my first nick in the blades but that was after 9 months of use. I would buy this planer again in a heartbeat.
 Very disapointed November 7, 2007
Patrick Brooks
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I ran less than 100 foot of white pine and had to turn the blades over. Two of the bolts holding the blades were tightened from the factory too tight, and stripped out. I ended up drilling and using a bolt extractor to remove the two bolts. Buyer beware..Dewalt has lost my respect as a quality tool maker.
Decent planer with disposable planer knives for occasional woodworker. June 1, 2007
Handy Man (NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
We used this planer to plane black locust that was used to build a playset for my kids. We killed once belt because of heavy duty work we were performing on it. We planed even 4"x8"x16' (black locust). Anyway not a heavy duty machine. Black locust is a tough wood though. We get 1700 feet of 4" wide black locust on sharpened planer knives (1 pass). Not bad but one side of planer knives was shot in one day so we had to turn over to use opposite side.
The only problem is that knives are disposable and expensive. Well I cannot spend 50$ almost every week for planer knives so I purchased sharpener from Woodcraft. Sharpener probably paid itself off. I wished they used some standard knives. I would buy carbide tipped planer knives.
We have dust collector hooked up to this planer. We got rid probably of 500 gallons of black locust shavings.
Overall I am pleased but cannot give 5 stars due to nonstandard disposable planer knives. It reminds me of some printer manufacturers. We give you almost a free printer but we will make up with ink. Dewalt seems to follow this logic except planer is not almost free.
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