As some of you may know from my other posts, I'm making a Brazilian cherry countertop for my laundry room remodel and I'm building it from left over flooring.
Last week I laid out all the cut down pieces and glued up 3 boards all less than 10" in width. The bottom of the boards were fairly even and flat but the top wasn't and I planned on fixing that by planing the three boards before joining them together.
Before I continue I should let you guys know, I'm an amature wood worker/DIYer and the planer was my newest tool. I used it to make the laundry room cabinets so I figured I had a good understanding of the tool.
And so the fun began!
I ran the first section through and to my surprise it struggled and didn't seem to remove that much material, let alone remove it evenly. It also sounded freaken loud! I ran the other two boards through with the same results. I was pretty disappointed with my dewalt 734
I kept running the boards through, flipping them around to see if I could get a more even planing surface. No luck. By this time the planer had stopped auto feeding the boards and I had to push them through.
I decided to clean the rollers but it didn't change anything. After half a day of this and barely any progress I was pretty defeated and on top of that I learned my first lesson the hard way...
I'm pretty sure I damaged my hearing I now have a ringing in my ears and my hearing out of my left ear seems weaker.
I'm an idiot, the planer got unbelievably loud and I thought to myself that this can't be good for my ears but I just kept going:| stupid!
Anyways, today I go at it again, figuring this is just how the tool works and I need to be patient. This time I wore ear protection, what a difference
After a couple of hours making small progress but progress none the less I began seeing some serious snipe. Crap! All my hard work and hearing loss for nothing!
Thoroughly pissed I decided to google my problems and came across a post with similar issues and the recommendation was to clean the rollers and get new blades.
The tool is only a little over a month old! How could the blades be dull already? As a last resort (actually the last resort was me returning it and getting a different planer) I flipped the blades over.
I crossed my fingers and ran a board through... Holy sh!t! What a difference! Now the planer was acting like I expected! I ran the boards through a couple of times and I was done! Snipe gone and the boards were smooth and even.
Lesson 2; if the tool ain't acting right look into it and fix the problem.
That's my story and if just one person learns from my mistakes I'll feel better.
Last week I laid out all the cut down pieces and glued up 3 boards all less than 10" in width. The bottom of the boards were fairly even and flat but the top wasn't and I planned on fixing that by planing the three boards before joining them together.
Before I continue I should let you guys know, I'm an amature wood worker/DIYer and the planer was my newest tool. I used it to make the laundry room cabinets so I figured I had a good understanding of the tool.
And so the fun began!
I ran the first section through and to my surprise it struggled and didn't seem to remove that much material, let alone remove it evenly. It also sounded freaken loud! I ran the other two boards through with the same results. I was pretty disappointed with my dewalt 734
I kept running the boards through, flipping them around to see if I could get a more even planing surface. No luck. By this time the planer had stopped auto feeding the boards and I had to push them through.
I decided to clean the rollers but it didn't change anything. After half a day of this and barely any progress I was pretty defeated and on top of that I learned my first lesson the hard way...
I'm pretty sure I damaged my hearing
I now have a ringing in my ears and my hearing out of my left ear seems weaker.I'm an idiot, the planer got unbelievably loud and I thought to myself that this can't be good for my ears but I just kept going:| stupid!
Anyways, today I go at it again, figuring this is just how the tool works and I need to be patient. This time I wore ear protection, what a difference
After a couple of hours making small progress but progress none the less I began seeing some serious snipe. Crap! All my hard work and hearing loss for nothing!
Thoroughly pissed I decided to google my problems and came across a post with similar issues and the recommendation was to clean the rollers and get new blades.
The tool is only a little over a month old! How could the blades be dull already? As a last resort (actually the last resort was me returning it and getting a different planer) I flipped the blades over.
I crossed my fingers and ran a board through... Holy sh!t! What a difference! Now the planer was acting like I expected! I ran the boards through a couple of times and I was done! Snipe gone and the boards were smooth and even.
Lesson 2; if the tool ain't acting right look into it and fix the problem.
That's my story and if just one person learns from my mistakes I'll feel better.
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