Here's a link to an excellent discussion on snipe, why it occurs and how to minimize it. I was considering a Grizzly 15" planer thinking that it would have less snipe than the Makita 12" benchtop. Not so. Looks like the Griz has a worse snipe problem than the Makita 12". I guess the best way to completely avoid snipe is to cutoff the leading and trailing 2" of stock. If I'm making kitchen cabinet face frames then I guess it would make sense to run the longest stock possible through the planer so that I could get several snipe free pieces out of the middle, then only have to deal with 2 bad ends. Are there any reasonably priced floor planers out there that don't have a snipe problem?
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_bas...and_Snipe.html