ryobi planer knives

I have an older style ryobi ap1300 planer, i bought it about 5 years ago at HD. They don’t sell it anymore, they’ve gone to a smaller lighter version of it and the knives are different. Since they’ve quit selling it i’ve had problems finding knives. I’ve had to order directly from ryobiparts.com for $45 a set plus shipping. Untll recently that is. A good friend of mine has the same planer and is also a mechanical engineer. we were at lowes and were looking at the knives from delta and decided that is was the same knives except for the length, the delta knives are a 1/2” shorter. We’ve both tried them and they work perfectly. They are $24 a set and the only thing you have to keep in mind is that you can’t run wood on the outside of the bed against the outside rail because of the shorter length of the knives. I don’t run wood that wide because i only a a 6” jointer, so it worked out perfect for me. The knives are half the price, work just as well and are readily available.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com