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

For something to be a deal, it has to perform, and this does. It planes well, is constructed to suit its price (actually a bit better). The instructions are helpful.The downside is the front knob is both handle and depth-of-cut adjustment, and is easy to change when holding it. If you are careful about that, it is a great DIY solution. It is just as worthy as my other, growing collection of, Wen tools.We are using ours to level deck beams and joists, so I can't comment on how it would be for finer woodworking.If I was using it daily, or as a pro, I'd probably get one of the 4x the cost high end ones, but I'm not and I ain't, so my only regret was not getting the next Wen model up for the extra width.I'll update the review if anything changes (e.g. it breaks).

I read all the one star reviews. So I was not expecting much here. I was pleasantly surprised! This worked great right out of the box. I used it to plane down a 5 foot long 40 inch wide table. I’m working on. And it was just fantastic. Help me clean up the edges of it as well. So I know there were some problems with blade alignment being reported and things like that. Had no issues with that and it just worked so so well.

So it took me a minute to get the hang of it but once I did it worked. Not top notch but for the money it did what it needed to do.

Easy 5 stars! I just ordered another one cuz I'm stupid and ran the cord over with it while being lazy and rushing a project and it sliced right through it lol. So, just don't do that and you're golden! I've ran over nails and it bites right past them and no blade damage. Hence the instant cut through of the power cord haha!

Like one other reviewer wrote this thing is a beast. I built a wheel chair ramp and needed to taper 2×6 edge at end of ramp. I tried my belt sander but it would have taken forever to get it cut down. Ordered the Wen planer and got it the next day, it took maybe 5 minutes to get the job done. It has plenty of power, I cut a pretty deep cut and it never even sounded like it was loaded.The little chip bag that came with it is a joke, it would have filled up in about 5 seconds. If I gad to use inside I would hook it up to my shop vac. If it holds up well it will be a winner.

This is 10X better than I could’ve ever expected.

This planer makes it easy to plane wood. It takes some getting used to but works very well.

I'm not very handy, but my home needed a new window seal on a large northern facing window. After watching a few videos saw that the only challenge would be getting a 12% slope across the exterior facing side so the water runs the right direction. Recalling all I could remember about those trig hippopotamus, calculated the drop and notch the board edge with my router, the took one look at my old school manual planer and the 8' length and thought of the hours it would take and started looking for "power hand planers". Looked through the review of several brands most of which were good with the exception of the guide construction and the saw dust ejection. The WEN had no repeated specific complaints about its guide and dust ejection only in one direction. It came quickly, very well packaged. I should have practice with it but did set it for very small bites @ 1/32" (dial it to depth you need) to provide opportunity for error correction. Simply leaned on the outer edge on each pass until the routed notch on the low side was gone. The slope is very consistent the full 8' length. Spent more time calculating / studying than the 15 minutes to set up the planer and cut the slope needed. OH! It has a notch on the bottom of the planer to round off the edge too. Virtually no sanding required afterwards other than over a knotted area . . . . very easy to use even for the novice.