Price: $54.99 - $39.97
(as of Sep 18, 2024 04:05:57 UTC – Details)
Remember when you needed to smooth out those joists? Plane away chips, splinters and misshapen edges with the WEN 6 Amp 3-1/4 Inch Electric Hand Planer. Perfect for fixing stubborn doors and fitting wood. This power planer’s 6-Amp motor delivers over 34,000 cuts per minute to your workpiece, slicing away any irregularities until the surface of your boards are aligned and smooth. With a cutting width of 3-1/4 inches and a maximum cutting depth of 1/8 inch, you’ll have the perfect companion for fitting and squaring boards. The 16 positive stops increase in increments of 1/128 inch anywhere from 0 all the way up to 1/8 inches. The base plate shoe even includes a v-shaped groove for easily flattening sharp post corners. Aside from the power planer, this package also includes a dust bag, a rabbeting guide, a kickstand and a parallel fence bracket. The included rabbeting guide adjusts anywhere from 0 to 7/10 inches to allow for rabbets up to an inch deep in size. The parallel fence provides an accurate and straight cut by making sure your strokes are directly parallel to the edge of the wood (a must have for planing door edges, wood trim and boards). The kickstand protects both the blade and the workpiece in between uses by keeping the blade elevated and out of contact from the surface of your project. Finally, the dust bag collects all of your loose shavings to keep your work space clean and sawdust free. The bag attaches to both the left or right hand side of the planer to fit whatever your preference may be. And because this is a WEN Product, your 6 Amp 3-1/4 Inch Electric Hand Planer comes backed by a 2-year warranty, a friendly customer help line, and a nationwide network of skilled service technicians. Remember when you had a reliable planer that lasted for years? Remember WEN.
6 Amp motor provides up to 34,000 cuts per minute
16 positive stops adjust the cutting depth anywhere from 0 to 1/8 inches
Make rabbets up to 1 inch in size with the 5/16 inch rabbeting guide
Lightweight design weighs in at a mere 6 pounds
Includes power planer, dust bag, a kickstand, a parallel fence bracket and a 2-year warranty
4.5
Reviewer: Burr Clausen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing for the price
Review: Worked great. Well made. Cut (planed) the wood quickly and evenly. Dust bag worthless (too small) but I just didnât use it.
Reviewer: B MILLER
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Product
Review: Being a novice wood worker I couldn’t afford a planer machine so I needed the right tool for my project. Recommend reading instructions to become familiar with planer. After adjusting settings to correct thickness, worked like a champ. Depending upon task, recommend using a vacuum attachment as the planer does create a lot of saw dust. Sufficient power and suggest hearing protection. For the cost planer was durable and produced desired flat surface.Overall good price and tool for novice users.
Reviewer: David H
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great at this price point, but…
Review: I needed a planer to level a small cheap butcher block countertop I’m making. How cheap? It’s made of ripped down 2x4s. This planer honestly did pretty good after a little set up , after which it did a decent job of leveling the panel. The cuts were nice and smooth and even enough once I figured out what I was doing.However, there are several caveats you should be aware of, the first of which is that it required quite a bit of fiddling to level the blades with the rear shoe. Also, while the blades were sharp, they were not perfectly straight but slightly curved so that the edges gouged out more than the middle. If anything planer blades should be curved the other way so that they carve slightly more from the middle than the edges. I could have removed the blades entirely and spent some time leveling them on my diamond plates. I personally don’t think that’s unreasonable, especially for the amount of money you pay for this thing and I certainly would have done so if not for the final nail in the coffin: The front shoe was not parallel with the rear shoe in either direction which caused a lot of snipe no matter how careful I was. And unfortunately that’s something I could not adjust and decided to return this unit. I could just exchange this for another one but I’ve now learned that I like electric hand planers enough that I want a higher quality one.So in summary, at this price point, this is a really good tool. However, if it were priced much higher it would probably not deserve more than one or two stars. Don’t expect a more than a moderate level of precision and be prepared to spend some quality time with it getting it set up and adjusted properly. If all you need is some quick and dirty leveling or something like trimming down some door edges or lumber, this thing would be perfect.
Reviewer: StPetePaul
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: WEN Electric Planer saves you time and money
Review: I had several sticking doors in my home that needed fixed. I didn’t want to spend a fortune for my home use and researched electric planers. I was familiar with the WEN Brand so I gave this one a try as my first electric planer. Similar quality planers were double the price.I used the WEN Planer on several hollow core doors and one heavy thick antique door and was very pleased with the performance. I had never used one before and just followed the directions included and set up the planer to remove a small amount at a time as little as 1/64″ or you can adjust it to take off much more. TIP: Start slow and use the low settings 1/64, 1/32″ and secure your work. The handle can be set to plane left or right handed as needed. TIP: The planer comes with a bag you can attach to the planer to catch the wood chips which is nice, but fills very quickly. However, I used my 1 gallon shop vac and attached the hose in place of the cloth bag. I would turn on the shop vac and then plane the door until I was finished with the vaccum sucking up the wood chips.I’m very happy with my purchase. It made quick work of my sticking doors and was easy to use and clean up. I saved half what I would have purchasing a local name brand unit. WEN is good quality for the homeowners needs. I would recommend this Wen Electric Planer to a friend.
Reviewer: Geoffrey L Heyer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This tool surprised me
Review: I use this to plain crosscut wood rounds/cookies. When the warp is small, I can use this planer and flatten the piece faster than I could set up my router jig. I still use the router to flatten large pieces and those with major warping, but this tool works beautifully for smaller projects. It will cause tear-out at the end of the sweep, so I leave the bark on. The tear-out hits the bark and leaves the sapwood mostly intact. I can do this because I remove the bark anyway. If you want the bark intact, this tool won’t work as well, although you can do your sweeps up to the center of the cookie and then stop. This avoids the tear out, but it can make flattening the center more difficult. The planer never bogs when removing small amounts. It’s great for cleaning up bandsaw and chainsaw marks. I love this planer and wish I would have bought it sooner. The chip collector bag gets in the way, so I don’t use it. Otherwise, I have no complaints.
Reviewer: W Franks
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great value.
Review: Rebuilding a couple of decks. Great addition to my existing power tools. Required to get the joists level. Makes that process much easier.
Reviewer: Daniel C
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Â Purchased the planer on sale. It showed up packaged and covered in sawdust. Battery had a full charge. Attached it to the planer and squeezed the trigger. Click nothing happens. Read some reviews on the planer and one gentlemen had the same issue after he used it for a 3/4 pass on some lumber. Iâm thinking this is the planer I received. Disappointing and a 1 star review is justified.
Reviewer: Pawel
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Went about 3/4 of a pass on a 4 foot pine board and quit. The motor made a ticking sound and that’s all the use I got out of it. I do have a replacement coming so we will see how it performs.
