BIG UPDATE III----SHOPMADE HELICAL CUTTERHEAD
Well, it’s installed in the planer. Watch the videos below to see how things turned out. I still haven’t finished editing the machining video, but I’ll get to it. See my first Topic SHELIX CUTTERHEADand Part I and Part II of this blog entry Here I begin inserting the teeth.......and here I finish. I didn’t want to bore you with watching me insert every tooth....Here is the first time I actually power up the planer. Pretty intimidating, if you ask me. I was ready to run for the hills !!!.FANTASTIC!!! There was virtually NO AIR TURBULENCE!!! The flat knives in the original cutterhead blew quite a breeze from the front of the planer, but with these…...