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I have upgraded the cutterhead in my planer for the second time, this time with a LUX CUT III Cutterhead from Global Tooling. I had to disassemble much of the drive components of the planer to take the old straight knife cutterhead out and put the brand-new LUX CUT III cutterhead in. After the new cutterhead was put in, I spent some time tuning up the planer so it cuts extremely well now. The 2 things that I actually like about this new cutterhead are the noise and the ability to airplane extremely thin pieces of stock. The noise of the brand-new cutterhead is a little quieter than the straight knife cutterhead, however what I really like is that the noise is more pleasing. It's more of a continuous hum and less of a chopping noise. I was able to aircraft a piece of pine down to about an eighth of an inch which I wasn't able to do before. This is going to be extremely helpful.
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0:00 (intro).
2:13 (setup).
14:18 (modifications).
18:53 (planing).
21:06 (conclusion).
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Excellent as always. With that much work, it had better be a huge upgrade
I would’ve thought a little grease would be recommended on shafts and gears. But you installed them dry. Did you do that to avoid dust build up on squeeze out?
Amazing video. Great to see this upgrade on this vintage machine. How do you power such a beast?
I would suspect it’s to keep the teeth from gumming up with dust and catching chips and chewing them up. It looks like there are a few open holes to the cutter head, which could blow some stuff through.
Always a good feeling, getting a machine dialed in. Makes me want to make things.
Long time to no see!! Glad to see a new video. I always enjoy your work. Love the animated “sense of humor.”
I was quite shocked to see how much needed to be removed in order to replace a major large part. I now understand that to purchase a machine of this type is a major decision.
Birdy
Agreed, though if the straight blades needed to be simply replaced it wasn’t that much stuff.
Fantastic work, Frank! Congrats!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Interesting as always. On the last shot, I was 1/2 expecting a split screen with a 3″ thick board at the infeed and a 1/8″ on the outfeed
I did the same upgrade in the same planer a few weeks ago. Total game changer. What a difference. I really appreciate your pervious video. It helped me get the job done.
You even making the mundane things entertaining due to your video skills. Good job Frank.
Nice work mate. Beautiful videography. And great to see you bring back some stop motion.
I used to watch your videos at 2x speed because I have things to do, but now I kind of miss them and I want them to last longer so I watch them at 1x speed. Might be kind of nice to paint your planer. Kind of like pask makes did with his drill press. Would look really sharp.
You could always plane thin things by using a flat piece beneath.
Frank, only you could make this task worth watching a 22 min. on. Wonderful photography and editing – some really cool camera angles. Did you have the camera clipped to your hat for the overhead shots? Great to see another Frank video in my feed – been missing you. Hope all’s well.
Flooring looks great Melissa, will be great to see it against the finished walls. 👍🏼
I am always impressed, how much work you put into filming and editing your videos… besides the subject itself of course.. 😉 I like the sound of the new cutter head… It sounds so… hmm.. futuristic…Not what a planer used to sound like, when i was an apprentice… Well done..greets from Germany..
Don’t let it go to your head…… but as usual, you impress me greatly with your skills, talents and know-how! Thank you. Very good video…..also as usual.
I appreciate you explaining what you’re doing and telling us the names of all the pieces during disassembly very thoroughly! I feel like I know every piece name now! 😀
I personally have had the shelix and lux side by side. I prefer the Lux but the shelix left a similar finish. I never had issues changing the lux blades but I cracked the shelix blades when changing them a few times.
Your the kind of guy and woodworker who does so much woodworking, that you deserve a high quality cutter head like the one you have now! Congratulations!
I can’t understate how much I appreciate your dedication to filming stop motion bits in your videos. I know it must take you ages to film and finish projects as a result, but it’s so charming and I hope you continue it for as long as it makes you happy.