6530 6-Amp Electric Hand Planer, 3-1/4-Inch

Worked for me. Good value. I needed it to plane a door and it was great for the money.

I used it for a single project and it paid for itself. So far I am absolutely loving WEN tools

Love this planer! My Chicago Electric from 12+ years ago gave up the ghost. This one is a near duplicate of the other with two minor differences, one good and another not so much. The plus is the little kickstand which holds the blade off the surface where you set it down. The only negative I found is the safety on the switch is only on one side. Right-handed it works fine, but with the left hand the safety is really awkward. That’s why 4 stars. For the money it’s a good tool. I used it to removed the saw cuts on exposed framing on my pressure treated boathouse roof and it worked great!

During a reno of a vintage 1900s property struggled about the trim. Back in the day the varnish used had the lead. The next coat was an oil-based paint in I'm guessing the 1960’s possibly. But, it's the thick lead hide paint that disgusts me. You include the decorative top trim is removed in most of the house. Plus, some of the wood is damaged. Trim is an exceptionally expensive change. One, protect from lead. And, how to improve the paint or replace it. Until now felt stuck for a few years. Bought this planer for me for Christmas. After a door debacle thought this would solve the straight surface issue easy peasy. Upon pulling off a piece of trim along the floor. Yea know, the seven inch high with a curve at the top. Typically including a separate decorative trim piece above. Looking at the back of the trim noticed a 1/16 of an inch plane one inch from the bottom and top perfectly through the middle along the entire board. Suddenly, this idea. If I plane those two areas then buff the entire board I’ll have the original wood. It's never been touched by varnish. If I cut the top curved inch off could add a new piece of trim to the top for decorative reasons. Like, in the movie Moster in law the living room has 1x2 inch painted black trim tacked on above the bottom wider trim tracing everything from the base board to around the door. Or, I could leave the dip to keep the board a full seven inches wide and still add a topper trim piece. The dip in the back could be helpful for cords that run along the wall sometimes for older homes. Instead of buying those plastic paintable holders. Anyway, with this planer, I can restore all the trim in the house. Making the projects go exponentially faster. Rather than use a heat gun and deal with all that. I’ll do a hand rub poly to bring out the wood. There are so many products today that weren't invented back then to help accentuate wood. It’s weird there is a gap in the back. Could have been for airflow perhaps. I didn't research the reason of why they took time to plane each board through the middle. Anyway, restoring boards from the late 1890’s to be used for one of the oldest houses in this neighborhood is like one of the coolest things ever, too me. I’m redoing the office for the practice first, so I should see the results by next week when I get to the trim. Super happy to have this planer and help to transform projects like the trim into works of art ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💯

these are great inexpensive planers I already own one but I'm doing a job on a house all the new doors are an 1/8 narrow so I hAve to plane them down I usually buy mKita products but I don't want to spend $300 for one .

Surprisingly smooth planer. Like that you can divert wood dust exhaust to either side. Seems powerful enough. And smooth to operate and stable. Should have thrown my old planer out long ago.

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.

I just completely my first project with this planer. It took me a few practice cut to get my cut motion right (see the huge snipe on the left side of my 2x6) but once I got a few test cuts under my belt I was able to get smooth consistent cuts (see right side of the 2x6). Even at 1/64” it smooths the board nicely, it is a lot quicker than sanding these rough boards. The tool itself is all plastic. It feels solid enough for a small jobs using softwoods but it doesn’t feel like it can handle really demanding jobs or hardwoods. One other note: the bag extends pretty far, make sure you have cleared the track before starting a cut