Ryobi AP13 Planer Thicknesser: Discontinued — What to Buy Instead
Ryobi has retired its whole benchtop corded planer line, AP13 included. Here is what the AP13 offered and the closest current replacement.
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The Ryobi AP13 was a 1500W benchtop planer/thicknesser: 318mm maximum width, 153mm maximum thickness, a dual-blade cutterhead running at 8,000rpm, and the usual snipe-reduction tricks — adjustable feed rollers, foldable infeed/outfeed trays, and a depth crank moving in 2mm steps. For occasional dimensioning of rough-sawn stock in a home shop, it did the job without much fuss.
It is no longer available. Not “hard to find” — Ryobi’s own product pages for its entire benchtop planer line, from the AP13 through the later AP1300, AP1301 and AP1305 revisions, now list as discontinued. Ryobi has stepped out of the corded benchtop planer category rather than replacing this specific model, so there is no direct successor to point to from Ryobi itself.
What to buy instead
The closest thing to a like-for-like upgrade in the same category is the DEWALT DW735X 13” two-speed thickness planer, linked below. It costs more than the AP13 did, but it is a current, widely-stocked product with a three-knife cutterhead and a two-speed gearbox for finer finish passes — both steps up from what the AP13 offered.
If you already own an AP13 and it still runs, replacement blades remain available through third-party sellers, so there is no urgency to retire a working unit. This page exists because the model itself is no longer sold, not because it stopped working.