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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Hey guys, I just bought the dewalt 735 and I'm getting snip on the infeed and outfeed about 2-1/2'' from the end of the piece. My problem is that I'm working on some cutting boards that I really need to get finished by the end of the day, the boards are already cut to length so I don't have any etra on the sides to cut off. The snipe is very minimal but unacceptable for the the board I'm working on. If any of you have any kind of tip for me that would be great, I'm really getting stressed out about this.
 
#3 ·
a quick, short term solution might be to put a board of the same thickness alongside your cutting board so that it sticks out in front and behind your cutting board by several inches. This should eliminate the snipe for this project. You can go about adjusting to remove the snipe later when time isn't a big factor.
 
#4 ·
Also, you can feed them end to end with a like sized piece at the beginning then after the last cutting board.

In general skewing the boards will remove most of the snipe except on the point going through first and last.
 
#5 · (Edited by Moderator)
a quick, short term solution might be to put a board of the same thickness alongside your cutting board so that it sticks out in front and behind your cutting board by several inches. This should eliminate the snipe for this project. You can go about adjusting to remove the snipe later when time isn t a big factor.

- BilltheDiver
+1.
That is the only sure way I know that will not create snipes. .lifting the end s works too most of the time .
 
#6 ·
+2 for above. I generally plane some 3/4-1" wide offcuts that are 6-8" longer than my boards while I am dimensioning the project stock and will go as far as to glue them to the sides of the panel/cutting board and then rip them off after planing. If you plan ahead you can just make it part of your glue up.
 
#7 ·
Lift the end of the board as it enters the planer and again as it exits the planer. This is a good solution for snipe with this planer. Doing this will make it clear to you how to adjust the in-feed and outfeed tables. I have had this same planer for a coupla' years now and get no snipe after adjusting the in and out tables high on the ends. (About 3/8").
 
#9 ·
My guess is that your cutter head is about 2 and a half inches from your feed rollers. You need to flatten the path. All kinds of "little tricks" can help you, but in the end, if you want consistent results, you need infeed and outfeed platforms that are exactly on plane with the bed of your planer. The can have a little "lift" on the ends away from the planer, but any drop is going to hurt you.
 
#10 ·
I found on my 735, I needed to add in feed and outfeed support.
You can purchase 12" ones from DeWalt for about $50 or design and build your own.
I made the planner stand at the proper height to use TS as infeed support, used the removal TS outfeed for the planner.
 
#12 · (Edited by Moderator)
Thanks guys I really appreciate the advise.
I grabbed a 2Ă—4 and cut it about 3'' longer the the cutting board then i ripped it in half and just planed it to the same thickness as the cutting board.
What's weird is that I've been reading everywhere that the infeed/outfeed should both taper up as in form a "V'' shape if you will, if I take a straight edge and span it across the the top of the two tables I get a gap of about 1/8'' or so, so maybe there should be more of a gap or less, or should it all just be dead flat? and in line with each other.

You can also make a sleigh that go over the in, main and out
I can find the link to a video if you need.

- jacquesr
Yeah please, that would be much appreciated!
 
#13 ·
Here are the boards. they came out very good….well except for the one, I ended up not paying attention and Made a true rookie mistake( I hate when this crap happens to me…LOL) I drilled just a hair to much so now I have two holes I need to figure out how to fix, I was thinking about just filling it in with wood glue and rub some saw dust over it but I'm concerned with the wood glue not holding up, so i was wondering if i could use some waterproof super glue instead? If any of ya have a suggestion that would be great!
And again thanks guys!!!

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#19 · (Edited by Moderator)
Thanks for the tips guys, I tried filling the holes with just glue and dust, It didn't look to bad. I should have kept it this way but oh well, I ended up drilling the holes out a bit larger and I inserted a dowel…

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...I wonder if the holes would look better if I had used larger dowles?



That s a nifty solution, bolting the whole assembly together so it moves as on big piece.

The cutting boards look like they came out well. Do you do these on a regular basis?

- B4B
Yeah, I do make a bunch of cutting boards.
In case you were wondering, these boards are Tiger Wood and Red Oak. The smaller ones(my first pic in my other comment) are Maple and Jatoba.

I'm going to be selling these at a fair in October. I'm Working on applying 4 coats of oil on these guys.
 

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