WEN PL1252 15-Amp 12.5-Inch Two-Blade Benchtop Thickness Planer , Black

Works nicely! It is loud, but I have never seen a machine that does this hard of a job this quickly or smoothly that it doesn't make a lot of noise. It draws the wood easily into and through the machine, the finish it leaves is remarkably smooth. The width is sufficient for many of my projects for wider ones I do it is sections and join them together after. All in all, a very nice machine that does a very good job!

Planing within 5 minutes of unboxing. Lots of warnings not to run end-grain boards through. Noted, but...I bought this to plane end-grain cutting boards. Was able to plane down 6 cutting boards in less than an hour. Couple things that worked for me - go very slow with the cutting - like, quarter turns for each pass so that it's just taking a very small amount of wood each time. Also I watched a tube video that suggested you bevel the back edge of the board to a 45-degree to help with chipping. that worked really well. Overall very happy with the purchase and quality.

Ready to go right out of the box! It's a great tool! The price was right, the product is well made and it does a great job planing wood. Highly recommend it.

I don't have much room in my garage for standing equipment, so I need benchtop equipment that is easy to move and store. So far, this thickness planer works well for me. But it does have a flaw that I can't adjust out - snipe! I get 2" of snipe on the infeed and 2" of snipe on the outfeed no matter how I adjust the feed tables. I solved this problem by simply hot gluing thin 1/4" sacrificial runners that extend 2.5" in front and behind the start and ending piece of whatever piece of wood that I am working - the runners take the snipe and my material runs through just fine. For the price of this machine, the added time to hot glue up some runners is not a problem for me - the finished thickness plane is perfect and true.

I was looking for a budget friendly thickness planer to clean up some wood that has been sitting around and has a lot of surface weathering. Very low learning curve and was playing with it and learning the best way to use it in less than a half hour or taking it out of the box and setting it up. More than I wanted to spend but money well spent.

Another great Wen product. Small shop and I use it a lot.

This is my first bench planer. Came with blade changing tools and a port for a dust collector / vacuum. I processed some de-nailed pallet boards through it and was impressed with the finished product. Some of the boards had gouges so it took a few passes while lowering the cutting height. Once finished, the planer produced very a uniform and smooth finish. Seems to have adequate power and doesnt bog down. However I was careful to plane small sections with each pass not forcing it to cut too much at a time. For the money it seems like a very solid unit. I feel itll be perfect for me to learn on. Additionally I feel if one takes care of it and doesnt abuse the planer, itll provide many years of service.

Out of the box, it worked fine. Did everything I needed to do. I played with it for a little bit making some passes until I could get used to how it operates, but it’s very smooth. It does a great job. It’s a good goodbye for the money.

No es un Dewalt pero tiene lo suyo, la verdad es que para mi uso en mi pequeño taller está excelente. Anteriormente tenía un dewalt y puedo decir y comparar que este no trabaja nada mal, hace menos ruido, vibra mucho menos y en el acabado ahorita obviamente las cuchillas están nuevas y deja un excelente acabado en madera de parota ya el tiempo dirá cuánto le duran el filo a las cuchillas y con todo y eso los repuestos son muy accesibles por lo que no te costará cambiarlas por una nuevas. Sus materiales no son como un dewalt y haga mención y alusión al dewalt porque creo es como el referente de los cepillos de banco primero pesa mucho menos y eso me gusta porque lo puedo cargar yo solo en comparación con el ya mencionado, a sus costados en lugar de ser de plástico es lámina y la base es de fierro, la parte superior donde están los rodillos es de lámina, la manivela a mi gusto se siente pequeña y un tanto frágil en comparación al otro cepillo pero te acostumbras al agarre y después ya ni lo notas, el uso que le doy en el taller donde solo yo trabajo mis herramientas es leve en comparación a otros talleres donde hay 4 o 5 personas dándole duro todo el día así que para mi que trabajo cedro y parota y que en todos mis trabajos tengo que pasar la madera por el cepillo hasta ahorita te puedo decir que no ha fallado y que me ha dejado unos excelentes acabados. Este cepillo Wen es la quinta herramienta que tengo de la marca y por experiencia con l marca fue como me decidí ya que hasta ahorita ninguna me a quedado mal y ya llevo 3 años trabajando con una canteadora wen y sin problema la máquina y las cuchillas aún con filo(ya próximo a cambiarlas ) así que sino quieres o tienes para invertir en un cepillo de 14mil pesos esta es una excelente opción. Yo lo conseguí en $9,600 pero he visto que luego llaga a estar con descuento al rededor de unos 8,500. Recuerda que el rendimiento que te dé tu herramienta depende mucho del uso y cuidado que tengas con ella, es como cuando el taxista trabajo su propio auto y cuando se lo das a trabajar a alguien más, solo tú cuidas porque a ti te costo, por lo que tiempos de trabajo y rebajes los hago con cuidado y paciencia para prolongar la vida útil de la máquina y de las cuchillas. Sin duda esta es una excelente alternativa a un menor costo.

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