What is the difference between helical and spiral cutter heads?

The helical cutterheads have the carbide inserts mounted at a slight angle to the path of the workpiece. This produces a shearing action during the cut. The spiral cutterheads have the carbide inserts mounted perpendicular to the workpiece travel.

What is a spiral cutting head?

It’s called a spiral cutterhead. It is a newer design that uses the concept of insert tooling rather than traditional straight knives installed in the cutterhead. Small square carbide cutters are placed in close proximity to one another along a machined spiral pattern in a steel head.

What is the difference between DW735 and DW735X?

The only difference between the DW735X and the DW735 is that the DW735X comes with infield and outfeed tables for supporting the work piece, and an extra set of planer knives for the cutterhead. While the DW735 is just the planer machine without the infeed and outfeed tables and the extra cutterhead knives.

What is a helical style cutter head?

Helical cutter heads are also called journal heads or indexable insert cutter heads. What this means on a technical level is that the cutter head employs a more or less foolproof system for cutter placement. When you change cutters, you are virtually guaranteed correct placement of the cutter in the head.

Is a spiral cutter head worth it?

It’s one of the maintenance advantages of spiral cutters. The smaller cutting heads on the spiral cutter work in smaller sections to remove large quantities of surface wood. This results in a smoother wood finish than you’d get with blade cutters, reducing the need for additional sanding or finishing.

Are helical cutter heads better?

I know helical is better, but it seems spiral offers many of the same advantages: better cut on figured woods, faster and easier blade changes. But the helical design is a lot more expensive.

Is spiral or helical better?

Is the Dewalt DW735 worth it?

After running 3 projects worth of lumber through this planer, we’re impressed. The DeWalt DW735 is a perfect upgrade from the lower powered benchtop planer, and very effectively bridges the gap to professional shop machinery.

Does DW735 come with blades?

The DW735 is so easy to setup that even a complete novice to thickness planing can set it up in a mater of minutes. It comes with the blades already installed and all the pre-set stops factory adjusted.

Where is the DeWalt planer made?

Where Are The DeWalt Manufacturing Facilities In The United States? DeWalt currently has manufacturing plants in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Connecticut.