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spiral cutter for older Felder

 

Hi, my second post. I forgot to ask, is it worthwhile fitting a spiral cutter to the planer / thicknesser on an old FB5 31. And, is there a direct replacement or is a special order required. Please excuse my ignorance, I am new to this.
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Thanks,
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Robert
 

I bought a ‘99 BF6-31 and retrofitted it with a helical head. It was a custom order; I bought it through Byrd tool for just shy of $1k. Definitely worth it for the performance. There’s no comparison between carbide inserts and HSS knives.
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I measured the existing cutter head and reverse engineered it to create a detailed dimensioned drawing which I sent to them. Their existing drawing of a BF6 cutter head didn’t match mine exactly. Fortunately everything fit with my custom one and it works great.?

it took them six months to deliver, twice their initial estimate. Communication was poor and only initiated by me; they would have been content to let me languish indefinitely. I’ll never buy another Byrd product again.
 

The guy from Bradshaw joinery had a custom spiral cutter made for his AD531 J/P, he is very happy with the cutter.




FindBuyTool.com is a company in HongKong, all the products they sell are manufactured?in?China.?

They have 3 spiral cutter heads for CF741, AD531, and A3-31 now. You can get them to make a custom spiral cutter for your FB531, and it will not break your?bank.



James



On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 4:40?AM robert.mcgregor via <robert.mcgregor=[email protected]> wrote:

Hi, my second post. I forgot to ask, is it worthwhile fitting a spiral cutter to the planer / thicknesser on an old FB5 31. And, is there a direct replacement or is a special order required. Please excuse my ignorance, I am new to this.
?
Thanks,
?
Robert

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