ONE Super Simple Secret to Prevent Planer Snipe 

Could you adjust your out feed table to be slightly higher than the middle of the planner?

Thbaks for the tip on snipe! Let’s see how it goes

Thanks for the tips!! Liked it

Good job of explaining snipe and my technique to use another board butted up to avoid it as well. Keep up the great work as the goal is for us to continue to inspire others to build something awesome! 👍🏼

Good advice. Thanks.

What about snipe at the front of the board? I've seen two sacrificial boards used, front and back(?)

holding the board off the table until it's under the second roller works for me as far as preventing snipe on the leading end. Holding the board up to maintain even level of feed prevents snipe on the back end. I don't feed a bunch of boards overlapping one another either. Wood is too expensive (for me) to be using sacrificial pieces, whether it's just one or two.

I understand how using a sacrificial board stops snipe on the first one but how can you use both boards to stop snipe on both boards as you will eventually use only one board to go through the planer causing snipe on that last board.

Great job thank you sir !

Known confusingly in this country as a thicknesser. Of course, it does the reverse of that...

My snipe always happens in front, and I have a flat melamine board as a table on top of the aluminum

If your boards are dead flat, vary seldom will you get snipe

ear protection?

Ear protection!!

While snipe can be partially caused by the free end of the board moving up or down, it is not the main cause. The fact that putting a scrap board through beside, or closely following, your work board prevents snipe should tell you that the main cause is 'rocking' or 'tilting' of the cutter head assembly. Using scrap boards to support the cutter head prevents it from lifting slightly, as the leading edge hits the outfeed roller or dropping slightly as the trailing edge leaves the infeed roller. If snipe was purely a result of the board or infeed/outfeed table support then putting a scrap board through with the work would make no difference.

Your snipe explanation (lifting the end of the board when it passed one of the rollers) contradicts your sacrificial board snipe prevention trick (how could 2nd board prevent 1st board end from moving up and prevent the snipe?). In fact, there is a better explanation for snipe due to cutting head slight down movement on one end when board has passed its corresponding roller.

Alot of those u tubers that offer diys barely even know what they're doing

that's not quite how snipe is caused. If it were placing a sacrificial board at the end would not work.

Need eye protection and a dust mask

Machine cost to much for this shit