I like that you show imperfect passes, imperfect results and are willing to try things on the video and share the tries with us. I trust this type of review so much more than someone who is perfectly polished and scripted. Really Really appreciate the review!

Thank you so much! I recently got one of these from my 9-5 as a "Thank You" gift for my year of service. I was a bit timid about the quality but when you are just using a bench planer, anything else is a God send. This video has given me the courage to unbox this and I feel this table build will finally be done soon. Great job showing the accessories and how to properly use this. I am glad to be a new subscriber to your channel.

Clear and concise instruction on how to adjust and use the Wen Planer......I especially liked your visuals descriptions on how the front shoe depth adjustment works at approx. 3:10 Thank You

Good job with an honest demonstration. Thank You!

Great demo, thanks for being so thorough!

super helpful in showing what to expect when using this tool. excellent video. thank you.

This was so helpful! What an excellent demonstration!

I've had mine for 3 years now and it has been great!

Free video. Thanks for posting and showing us how to use it. 👍

Great video! I’ve had one sitting in a box for 5 years. Never used but thanks to this video I’m gonna bust it out!

Just watched this, Mike, and appreciated it. I am waiting for the Wen 4-3/8" version to arrive now!

Just got mine... Thanks for the tips!

Thank you for the run-through on this tool. I’m a newbie, and I consider it a huge plus when someone does a demo that isn’t perfection necessarily, but shows you what to expect right out of the gate. Very helpful - I’m already thinking about a mod that would stabilize that rabbet accessory to fix the accuracy issues. Thank you!

WOW! I was just about to go to Home Depot and spend big on an electric planer for a small deck project. While having morning coffee, opened the you tube app and your video was front & center. I just saved big. Thanks for the review.

2 years later, great review. Thanks!!!!

Very well thought out video with and great presentation skills. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for your honest video

Excellent demo on this unit.

Thank you so much for this excellent video lesson. I am going to buy one and try it out.

Thanks so much, I just got this and this was super helpful 🙏🏽 Subscribed 😎

Appreciate you demonstrating the tool good or bad like you said it was cheap and it’ll serve my purpose. thanks again

Got one coming Friday im mostly going to use as a jointer. Much cheaper than a traditional jointer but works the same way

Great job, Thanks!

I bought the same planer a few months back. Haven't used it yet, but I'm getting ready to, thanks to your video. I may try facing some "unpurposed" 2x stock, to see how it does.

Very good review (I have been a self employed building contractor since 1972) !

super video, thanks man!

Great demo for a tool I have in my online shopping cart. Purchasing for planing those horrible fence pickets from the big box store. Desperate times, desperate measures 😁

Aww, geez. Screw my old hand plane. This is awesome. GETTING ONE!

i've used a lot of electric hand planes over the years and only my bosch has had a fence that i actually trust. that being said, a square block of wood about the length of the planer double stick taped to the heal sole makes a very servicable and quick fence. i've used that method pretty much every time i needed to rebate construction lumber where i'm not sure about what fasteners i might hit. i'd rather trash a $40 wen rather than my $180 bosch.

Thanks for the little clip and yes, I do have the next size up from the WEN you have showed as well as a 13" planer and I am happy with both purchases since I am not a professional and just fiddle around with them. It took me a minute to make sute that you not wearing a Submariner and am still not sure if it is an expensive brand watch or a look-alike and yes, it's the design I wear and I leave the good one in the safe while wearing the Casio not to worry about scratching it up when messing around on the Diesel or other stuff - take care!

Thanks for the demo. I"m looking for a cheap planner.

Good information.

You're meant to use the thin metal flap, near the back of the fence attachment, as a handle. You use that to push the fence into the wood, stopping you from weeble-wobbling around on the edge of the thin board.

I was actually looking for some instructions of how to plane a wide board easier. I have a 22 inch Live Edge that I'm making a coffee table out of

Just got mine and wondering if I could use it as a paint scraper by gluing a really thin piece of plexiglass on the bottom so the blade hits the paint and barely touches the wood. The 1/64 minimum setting would get down into the wood I'm afraid.

Good video subbed.

I bought a Cheap one from China on a certain site which I'm not sure I'mn allowed to name on ur channel bro so?!? ....... Fook it I'm ..It's Banggood and the tool manufacturer are called TOPSHAK.. The electric Hand Planer cost me 33 Euros bro. I haven't used it as of yet but u gave me the inspiration to get out in the workshop, I call it my workshop but I haven't fixed it up bcos of work committments. I work full time so time is hard to find at the end of every day. Every time I make plans to build out my workshop someone needs my help to do something else and my day is always gone.. LMAO. This is the time now for me to get building out my Workbenches and Mitre station. Thanks for this brilliant video my bro. Gonna finish now by wishing U and ur family a very Happy Xmas and every success for 2023. Same sentiments go out to all in the comment section throughout YT.. Apologies for my long winded comment bro. Salute from IRELAND!

Where can I get the dust bag. I have the smaller one and did not come with one

thanks for the video. It seems around 6:10 where you stopped had grooves....or is that grain? thanks

Thank you for a great video. Do you know by any chance if this tool can be used on MDF? Thank you.

I'm thinking about the wen for replacing my old makita cheaply for the once in awhile use on high joists and nots sticking proud. It looks like it throws the chips just fine.

so this cant be used to shave door to adjust height?

yeah i was looking to get one of these they have one at harbor freight for 29 dollars. but i think i am going to get the boshe one for 80.

Your advice: What's better to use a cheap router with appreciable tr/m or this tool to make angles ?

Plz review WENs latest portable tablesaw, I love WEN value, products

I have a door rubbing the sagging top frame/jamb of a door. Is a planer a good idea or better to sand?

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The blades on the first one, and the replacement WEN sent me were not straight. One of the blade set screws stripped and they sent me a free replacement, which was nice of them. But even after adjusting the blades on the replacement to get them as evenly as I could, it still would not cut flat. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but I gave up on trying to use it.

Does that dust bag fit on the WEN track saw?

Thanks for the detailed review.But the soda can on the table saw, makes me sweat a little. No drinks near the tools. You don't want that rust.

I bought used fence board, 4 inches wide. I want to get the grey off of the boards so I can repurpose them as walls inside a van. So far I’ve sanded about 8 of them down with a palm sander, waaay too much work. Would this planer do the job? Would it be pretty even if I had to do a few passes to accommodate the wider fence board?

QOULD YOU RECOMMEND THIS MACHINE TO PLANE DOWN RESIN FROM A FLOOD POUR ?

I attempted to plane a 2x4 that was not straight. When I finished three passes, I put a level on the board, and there are still high and low spots. Why?

Something I have never understood about these... how does it make a board consistently flat along the length of it, rather than simply taking more and more wood?

So is it just this planer that you shouldn't cut across the grain with?. I just watched another carpenter cut across the grain with a Makita planer, and it worked just fine. Now I am confused because I am hanging a slab door into an existing jam and need to plane off a little off the bottom, which will go across the grain. I don't wanna buy this if I can't use it for that purpose, and I don't wanna buy the expensive Makita one. Someone please let me know.

1/28th??

Doesn’t seem to be catching any dust

It's a pity the guard isn't as sturdy to give straight rabbits. As you suggested in the review with the skil planer the guard is better engineered. I think you could fix the guard on this one by spot-welding a strip of sheet metal between the pieces of the guard to provide additional support. I was looking at the equivalent Porter Cable planer and that guard has that support..same as the skil one. The only thing the porter planer doesn't include the adjustable rabbit depth stop.

Hey for $40 bucks, that's pretty good :o

I thought this was big Ben Roethlisberger 😂

The depth adjuster is crude. After hours of frustration I removed the knob and dropped the front plate. I shimmed the plate to make a fixed depth of somewhere between 1/64 and 1/32. The design, while similar to other lower cost planers is terrible due to a way less than precision fit. I have spent more the the cost difference in minimum wage time trying to get a reliable adjustable depth(cuts ok at fixed depth). This machine is not a quicker way to plane than by hand when pieces are ruined. I am not a satisfied buyer. Perhaps I’ll epoxy a good fitting sleeve to the area of the body that is so flimsy it can’t be expected to support the front shoe and then maybe not. The next will not be a WEN

This tool would be worth $40 bucks just to avoid the blowouts I've done with a hand plane.

that rabbit may have be better done on a router table

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This one is garbage