I’ve made a number of kitchen drawer trays and jewelry boxes and always use ¼” thick Maple as the dividers. This works well since I have a ¼” dado blade for my contractor table saw. My problems have occurred when trying to thickness plane the maple to ¼” before ripping it into strips. I have a DW734 thickness planner. When trying to get to ¼” I set the depth stop on the side of the machine at ¼”. When I get close I try to sneak up on it by repeated passes through the planner, turning the handle anywhere from ¼ to 1/8 of a turn on each pass. I use a digital caliper after each pass to measure the thickness since the scale on the DW734 is very close but not exact enough for my purpose. There are two problems with this. First, by nibbling away at the thickness I’m taking multiple passes through the planner. Takes time and wears on the blades. I’ve also over tightened it a bit on the last pass and ended up with a sloppy fit in the dado and having to start again. There's not a lot of forgiveness in a 1/4 inch dado. If I end up having to make more because I screwed up something, like cutting the dados in the wrong spot (who me?), I have to go through the whole exercise again.
Sorry for the long story but, with that said, has anyone tried the Digital Planer Readout from Chipsfly https://www.chipsfly.com/product/35-520.html and, if so, which planner, 734 or 735? It looks like it’s made for the 735 but can be made to work on the 734. Is it worth the $48? As always, thanks for your help.
Sorry for the long story but, with that said, has anyone tried the Digital Planer Readout from Chipsfly https://www.chipsfly.com/product/35-520.html and, if so, which planner, 734 or 735? It looks like it’s made for the 735 but can be made to work on the 734. Is it worth the $48? As always, thanks for your help.
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