Help me out.
Problem 1) Tearout.
THis is my first real chance to use my new Delta Thickness planer and i'm getting tearout (dips/tears along the face of the board) -- at least that's what i call it. I just bought 3 exotic hardwoods (yellowheart, granadillo and wenge) for project. On the granadillo i'm getting tearout and i've tried taking off 1/64th" at a time and running the planer (the two speed 12" delta model 22-580) on the finish setting (90 cuts/inch).
What am i doing wrong? Blades should be sharp as it's brand new. I've run some pine and the yellow heart through it and they look great. Haven't tried the wenge. The other odd thing is i ran this wood over my old, heavily used sears jointer (recently inherited from my dad...sat idle for the past 10 years). The wood finish looks better (no tearout) from the jointer than the planer -> i'm really confused. Any ideas?
Problem 2:
When i run the yellow heart through, the wheels don't seem to want to push the wood through -- it'll stop at a couple spots along the way. What typically causes this?
Any help the forum can provide is appreciated...like i said, it's a new planer and i was pretty psyched about this project but sure didn't expect to run into this.
Bob C