Steve wrote: : I own this exact machine and I can tell you from the heart, buy it, : you won't regret it. The fit and finish of this machine is nothing : short of spectacular. The cut is smooth as glass. With the indexable : carbide cutters that can be rotated three times before replacement, : you will be jointing a heck of a lot of stock before you have to : replace them. Plus they send you an extra set of carbide cutters with : the machine. Ya just can't beat that. Rotating the carbide cutters : takes all of a few minutes. NO MORE will you have to worry about : getting the height of your knives set correctly. Once the cutters are : rotated, you're back in business.
: One other thing you will notice is that it doesn't matter which way : you feed your stock. With the grain, against the grain, doesn't : matter, it comes out looking as if the board has been polished with a : buffing pad. If you are jointing wood with figured grain, you will : definitely come to appreciate this jointer very quickly.
: I can only speak for myself and will honestly tell you that I know : that I made the correct decision when I purchased this machine. It is : a machine without equal in its class, both price wise and performance.
: Steve
I'm curious about how it is that these machines produce such a good surface -- seems to be better than on a standard jointer. But each cutting edge is parallel to the beds of the jointer, right? So how can is cut better than a standard blade does?
On a true spiral-blade jointer, the blade's edge is skewed, and I understand why that would produce a smoother finish (esp. on figured woods), since it lowers to effective cutting angle.
-- Andy barss