Any woodworkers here?

[Don Rickles]

...Heavy! Driver dropped it off at the end of my driveway.....

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

All the above....the hard woods especially the cherry woods I ran thru it would burn after only a few passes on new blades. Motor couldn't handle the sizes I tried to put through the machine. A big problem I had way back then was not having a good vacuum system, the chips would build up and clog the machine, I was clearly overworking it...Since then I did also add the Grizzly vacuum, boy did it help!

Absolutely. My DeWalt has had issues with some of the harder and heavier exotics. It had a difficult time with Brazilian cherry, ziricote, wenge, kingwood, and bubinga to name just a few. Ziricote is so hard, I melted a tire right off my bandsaw trying to resaw it. Last time I planed it, the built-in breaker on the planer popped several times because it was overloaded.

I have to think that staggered carbide cutterheads would have an easier time with such difficult exotics.

[DAB]

i'm too cheap to use such fancy woods.....

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by DAB

i'm too cheap to use such fancy woods.....

You aren't missing much. They're hard on all your cutting tools, most of them are so toxic the dust has sent me to the doctors for steroids more than once, they're ungodly expensive, and what they will do to your best chisels has to be seen to be believed.

[Onebadcad]

I was damn good in 8th grade woodshop class, until I got booted for filing all the trash cans with tobacco juice, got sent to Home Ec, picked up a few babes there.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

I was damn good in 8th grade woodshop class, until I got booted for filing all the trash cans with tobacco juice, got sent to Home Ec, picked up a few babes there.

You do some boob grabbing there?

[Unsuspicious]

Originally Posted by LATB

You do some boob grabbing there?

[Stevedore]

I've had the DW735 for many years; got it on a good deal from Rockler with the stand, infeed/outfeed table extensions, & spare blades. I haven't felt the need for a helical cutter head, but I've only used it for oak, cherry, maple, sapele, sycamore, & some occasional teak.

I'd suggest watching your local craigslist & facebook groups for some possible deals on any used woodworking equipment.

[Torqaholic]

We had 3 big wooden water tanks alongside the station when I was in the Coast Guard. One Summer they disassembled those and had me drive the boards up to Norfolk where there was a big planer that I ran them through. Took longer to drive there than to plane the boards. Don't remember how many trips I made but it was a lot.

No idea how I found my way there and back, just a born navigator I guess