Woodmaster: New Planer Head

Let's talk about Woodmaster in general for a second, and then I'm gonna specifically talk about their planing function. Woodmaster is an American company. All of their stuff is American made. If you're not familiar with these machines, you should be. They're multifunction.

There's a lot going on here. I can set it up as a planer, as a drum sander, as a molder, as a rip, so it's really a lot of stuff. In a small footprint, different size heads are available, so there's a machine out there that'll match whatever kind of work you're doing. What I wanna talk about today is the revolutionary new head, revolutionary. See what I did there?

Let me take the cover off and we're gonna have a close up look at their new planer head. It's cool. What's new on this head is this deep relief. Now just looking at this, there's a lot of great stuff going on. We've got a spiral cutter hood.

We've got inserts, and what that means, of course, is that if an edge gets dull, we can rotate it to a fresh edge. When all the edges are dull, all we have to do is swap out the inserts. We don't have to send anything in to be sharpened. With the relief specifically, what's happening with this intuitively, you're gonna get this right away. That's providing more space leading the cut, so chip clearance is much better.

The planer can make a more aggressive approach to the cutting that you're doing, and on top of all of that, the shearing finish that we're getting from this is incredible. We're gonna run a piece of maple through here, and you're gonna see just exactly what I'm talking about. Now this head can be an upgrade that you do on any of their machines, and one of the benefits to the spiral cutter heads is the time that you're gonna save on the back end of this, which is the less time that you'll spend cleaning the piece up with subsequent operations because we get such great cut quality from this cutter head. Let me get everything put back together, grab some dust collection, and we're gonna run that curly maple through this. Look at that beautiful cut.

And that curly maple, that is absolutely three dimensional, which is a testament to just how smooth that cut quality is, because you can really see that curl pop. Very cool improvements. To Woodmaster's planer head, and remember that's available regardless of which size machine you have, and remember that these machines are not one-trick ponies, tiny footprint, with a lot of capabilities in that footprint.