Thickness planer

There’s a nick in one of the blades. Move any one of them just a hair and you should be fine. I don’t even bother with my “ridges”. They come out when sanding.

-- He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

+1 to what RickLoDico says…..I sand the ridges out also as the blades still cut very well even though they have a few nicks in them…..Dewalt 734…

Scott

-- If you never take a shot you will miss 100% of the time..."Wayne Gretzky"

Ditto on what they said.
Nicks are no big deal you have to sand anyway and they come right out. If you don’t sand you will see the blade scalups after you put on the finish. It should be a good planer I hope you like it. If you don’t have a jointer you can make a planer sled to mill up your lumber.

Tim

-- Although the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.

The blades are reversible so you can swap sides on one or all of the blades to eliminate the ridges, but nicks are plenty common and are pretty much inevitable, so they’ll be back. You can remove the ridges several ways….by running board back thru the planer at the same height in a different location, sanding, or using a handplane or scraper.

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