Hafele 940.40.071 Floor Guide, Hawa-Confort 120, 1-piece, Price/Piece

Best planer I have owned

Had to adjust table but after that it works great! It was leaving a little dip due to being un level but an easy fix. Wood comes out so smooth! Some pieces need a few passes but overall very impressed. Make sure you wear earplugs! Between vacuum and planer it's kinda loud.

I don't have any real experience with a thickness plainer but saw so many woodworkers using these things i thought I'd give it a try. I have only ran some construction 2x4s through it so far, but i was super excited at the result. The only snipe i saw was when i was being aggressive with the thickness of the cut. With removing only either 1/32 or 1/16 i saw no snipe. Just for fun i'm going to take a couple cheap construction grade 2x4s and plane them down to make a block cutting board just for fun. The, along with mettle 6” jointer, is going to get a ton of use over the next year.

What an incredible tool this is. Woodworkers in the market for a planer should not even consider any other machine. I upgraded to this after many years of struggling with a complete dud of a machine from the orange tool brand and I couldn't be happier. My old machine gave me poor results in nearly every way possible. It lacked power so that when planing hardwoods I could often take no more than a 64th of an inch at a time. I would waste an incredible amount of time standing at the planer dimensioning stock. It was often out of parallel and difficult to adjust. The knives barely lasted a few board feet of hardwood before becoming noticeably dull. Chips often got clogged under the knives and I would have to stop to remove and clean them.For many years I thought these problems were common to all portable style planers, but the Dewalt has none of these issues. I can plane double or even three times as much in a single pass, drastically reducing the amount of time I spend dimensioning lumber. The two speed cutterhead is fantastic. It allows me to quickly bring down stock to proper thickness and then get a superb finish with the slow speed. I find most of the criticisms of this product are not valid. Noise levels are not bad at all. It's noticeably quieter than my last machine. The knives also stay sharp much longer. I've planed many board feet of maple without rotating the knives and there has been no noticeable dropoff in performance. That sort of thing would have ruined a set of knives on my old planer. Even moderately figured wood and reversing grain don't cause this machine many problems. And folks really need to stop complaining about snipe or a nick on their blades. All planers snipe, yet on the Dewalt it is about as minimal as it gets. You just have to plan for it and feed stock through continuously with a little waste on either end. As for nicks, these sand out so easily I will never understand why people complain about it. Just sand your projects folks! And buy the Dewalt planer!

The set up and design of this machine is well though out making it extremely user friendly. Best table top planner I have used. I highly recommend it.