Originally Posted by
Julie Moriarty
FWIW, I ran some boards from my new 735 today. I have not adjusted the outfeed wing table so I relied on the stock tables and roller stands. I did a test run with a short piece of 2x6 construction lumber and it was silky smooth. It looked like birdseye pine, if there is such a thing. But then came the real test.
I had a piece of hard maple that was 15/16" thick. I resawed it in half and ran the pieces through the 735. The pieces were around 4" wide and over 5' in length. Before I added the outfeed roller stands, there was snipe at the end of the boards. After I added the roller feeds, I saw no snipe. But I did see chipout. The boards are fairly straight-grained hard maple. No figure at all.
I work with a lot of figured woods. If these results are typical, the Shelix may be in my future.