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

Have bought this product the first of April 2024. We have put it through at least 2 sets of blades and 6 weeks of steady planning very hard ten foot maple boards and about 100 2 by 6 pine boards plus. It has performed flawlessly. NOTE. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU USE A DUST EXTRACTOR TO hook up between any standard or large size wet dry vac. It will save you a ton of wear and tear and will make using the machine a pleasure and eliminate any dust. We also hooked up a ten foot roller. That really helped as well. I was so impressed I purchased two more units. Given what we have put this unity thru I would have expected it to complain. We have cleaned and oiled it weekly. I think this is very important if you are putting it thru heavy use. Hope you get as much luck and enjoyment as I have had. We have emptied at least 8 very large bags of sawdust. To give you some idea. AGAIN USE THAT DUST EXTRACTOR!!! JOHN

Very pleased with this planer

Nice machine, ejects wood chips and dust too well, overpowering my dust collector, so it blows out. Also the dust collector adapter broke after three months. Really poor and under-designed. Bound to break. Otherwise I like it, and I owned other makes and types before.

I have had this planer for over two years and have planed everything from maple and oak to pine and fir. It does an mazing job and with the infeed and outfeed tables installed and adjusted, I get no snipe at all.

Works great. Only downside is planer blades (which aren’t cheap) become dull fairly quickly, especially doing lots of hardwood. Still beats a hand plane!

I am trying to remove the chain tensioner so I can replace the belt (after 17 years, it failed) but the PHILLIPS screw stripped and I can't get it removed.

First, why is it a PHILLIPS instead of an allen head screw (like the rest of the screws in the machine)?

Second, its so tight it feels like thread lock was used (the 2 4mm allen screws also seemed to have thread lock because they "popped" when broken). If so, what were you thinking? Good thing I was able to use the allen wrench to put some torque on the screw so it would loosen.

Third, now that the tensioner screw is stripped, I've tried several techniques to get the screw out - but I can't get the screw to budge. Any ideas how to remove this screw without damaging the screw receptacle?

The 13" knife thickness planer cuts through all wood types as smooth as butter. Along with leaving a fantastic finish, this planer is extremely easy to operate. The chain drive makes lowering and raising the head a breeze. I love how easy it is to change the blades as well. The top comes off with only 4 screws and reveals the easily accessible cutter head shroud that has 3 hand loosening wing nuts for easy removal. I love this planer!

In 15 years have only had to replace blades as they wear out. Have planed lots of hard white oak with no problems.
Only issue is that sometimes the cutter head gets a little misaligned with one side a touch higher than the other but careful raising and lowering seems to eliminate the problem.

I have been running soft woods through it for almost 2 years. Maybe 1200 feet total. Typical the pieces are 3 to 4 feet. Well the motor decide to burn up and now won't work. Typically taking less than a 32nd at each pass. Not driving 84 miles one way to get the work done, even if it is warranty. Will never buy it again.

I owned dewalt battery drills more than one till the batteries became to much to replace, have a dewalt Porta band excellent tool and now I went the distance and spend a lot of cash on this 735x and the table to mount it . I bought 150 board feet of rough sawn hemlock for some accent shelving and a pair of stairs because I can buy 2x lumber from my Amish friend way cheaper and better that the old big box . However I needed to plane it to semi smooth it down to my liking . Let me tell you this planer paid fo itself already my wife and I ran 2x6,2x8,2x10 through this machine all day long and in meter missed a beat . These boards are a minimum of 2-1/4 thick to 2-1/2 and as long as 16 feet with sawdust flying everywhere we completed our task . Wished I would have bought it years ago .now I’m going to do a mantel for my sons house. If anyone out they want to spend money on a planer this is the one to buy