Originally Posted by
Patrick Walsh
That’s good to hear joe about boards on edge.
My Felder AD 941 combo does great job of the same and as a result it’s just how I process material up. Those chests I have been building I run the salts through all the way down to the 3/8 thickness. The 1/4 ones I have to gang together. If a machine could not run small boards on edge it would be a real deal breaker for me as I’m so used to processing my material four sides.
It was actually Matt when I was in his shop that mentioned his Whitney not likening boards on edge. I was shocked with my only planer experience being a machine that could baring dare a say a 24” Grizzly I used for a year and half I just figured all players could do that.
What my planer can’t do is run multiple boards through at the same time without either hanging them up them firmly holding them together on the in and out feed side. If not one board feeds and the other stops till it spits one board out. Pretty annoying considering it should be able to do that. More annoying as it takes forever to process large amounts of material. Same stupid crap with the powermatic at work.
I was also talking with another Martin owner this week or last and he mentioned his outfeed roll being rubber and having had been replaced 2-3 times in the life of his machine and it costing like $600 a piece. He also suggested that the machine can be equipped with dual outfeed rolls.
I’m gonna be in for it when I buy one of these being I’ll want those dual rolls and the big infeed and outfeed tables. I’ll go tersa as I have spiral on the Felder. I’m torn, as it saves my ass so often and I’ve never even rotated the knives. But it does leave a terrible texture. I’ve never rotated as I fear something goes wrong and I need my machine for work and then I’m screwed. Tersa I don’t worry about that.