I was curious how to avoid chipping with a thickness planer, i.e. my DW735, when planing cross grain, especially when engaging the edges of the work piece. Although I consider myself an amatuer, I do orient the board according to the edge grain when planing the faces to provide the best finish, but this has been with the face grain. However, I currently have a project nearing finish that I would like to establish parallel surfaces, but it involves face grains that are 90° to each other & I'm concerned I might chip the finished surface, edges in particular. Would using very light depths of cut, i.e. 0.005" work, and/or butting up a backup board work, or are there better "tricks" to use. I don't have a trial piece to check this out with as I threw them away thinking I was done with them.
Hoping you experience woodworkers can suggest a trick or two!