My situation:
I would like to have a helical spiral head on at least a planer for all the reasons that anybody else would get one...quieter, easily replaceable, less tear out. I have the Dewalt 735 with straight knives. I have a older powermatic 8 inch jointer as well.
i could sell both machines and that would be a good start toward buying a 12 inch combo machine but i'd still be in for quite an investment.
i don't mind my jointer and so i've considered spending the money for the upgrade to a spiral cutterhead. however, my planer is a little older and i worry about putting the entire value of the machine into it.
so i started searching for lunchbox style planers with helical heads. There are not many out there. rikon makes one (i don't think it actually spiral, just segmented) and i found one from cutech. its not a company i hear about. you can find one of their higher end models here: https://www.cutechtool.com/product-p/40200hc-ct.htm
anybody have one of these? thoughts?
I would like to have a helical spiral head on at least a planer for all the reasons that anybody else would get one...quieter, easily replaceable, less tear out. I have the Dewalt 735 with straight knives. I have a older powermatic 8 inch jointer as well.
i could sell both machines and that would be a good start toward buying a 12 inch combo machine but i'd still be in for quite an investment.
i don't mind my jointer and so i've considered spending the money for the upgrade to a spiral cutterhead. however, my planer is a little older and i worry about putting the entire value of the machine into it.
so i started searching for lunchbox style planers with helical heads. There are not many out there. rikon makes one (i don't think it actually spiral, just segmented) and i found one from cutech. its not a company i hear about. you can find one of their higher end models here: https://www.cutechtool.com/product-p/40200hc-ct.htm
anybody have one of these? thoughts?