DW735 · HSS · 3 knives
POWERTEC 128000, 13-1/8 in HSS knives for DW735, set of 3
The same DeWalt replacement as the FOXBC set here, published an eighth of an inch longer.
Every figure below names its source. Each one is a manufacturer
specification read off the listing itself. The judgments are ours.
A planer knife is bought by its section, not by its machine name.
Length sets which cutterhead it spans. Width sets how far it projects past the
clamping bar. Thickness sets whether the clamp closes on it at all. A knife an
eighth of an inch too long will not seat; one a tenth of a millimeter too thick
will not clamp.
Which is why the machine list on a listing is a convenience and the three
dimensions are the specification — and why two listings on this shelf for the same
DeWalt part publish two different lengths.
Thirteen and an eighth
Against thirteen on the FOXBC set beside it on this shelf, for the same DeWalt
DW7352 replacement.
Identical widths. Identical thicknesses. Three point two millimeters of length
between them.
Two readings are plausible: one maker quotes the nominal machine size and the
other the measured knife, or the knives really do differ and one of them does not
seat.
Both figures are on their own pages. The only way to know is to measure what is
in the machine.
Two part numbers for one part
The title ends “(12800)”. The specification field reads 128000.
Five digits against six, on the identifier a buyer searches to reorder in three
years.
The published Makita plunge blade on this shelf has the same fault, named in its
cons: the listing gives two part numbers. Both are above, and the specification
field is the one this site uses.
Locator holes, again
Which is the good half of this page, and it is shared with the FOXBC set.
Three of the six American listings on this shelf publish them, and they are the
answer to the problem the published 260 mm (10.2 in) knives name in their cons: setting
knives requires a gauge and patience.
High-speed steel, unnamed
A family rather than a grade. M1, M2, M35 and M42 differ in how much heat they
take before the edge softens.
The FOXBC set on this shelf names M2 laminated. This names the properties that
follow from HSS and not the steel.
Most planer knives in this class are M2. The figure that would separate them is
a hardness in HRC, and neither publishes one.
Availability
Read on the day this page was built: $28 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-07. The live price is at the top of the page.
