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This is probably no help, but I bought a Hammer jointer/planer several years ago. I called Hammer's customer service about changing the straight knife cutterhead to a spiral one. They transferred me to the technical department. There I got a high pressure sales pitch to buy their new machine with their new proprietary spiral cutterhead. No help a all with my questions abou replacing the cutterhead on my machine. I said thank you, hung up, and have had no further dealings with Hammer. Hammer is a subsidiary of Felder. Felder is the high-end brand, so you may get better treatment if you can actually get in touch with them.
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Take it to a machine shop. Have them make you some gibs.
Glad its my shop I am responsible for - I only have to make me happy.
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What Mike said .. You will be way less disappointed ... Its not just a Felder thing.. they're pretty much all like that ..
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Yeah, I'm beginning to think a machine shop is going to be the only way to go. They seem to fight me tooth and nail on every request I have. The technician was actually trying to talk over me when I just wanted to explain that I have a restored jointer with their cutterhead in it and would like a set of replacement Gibbs. This is not the quality of service I would expect from a a world class woodworking manufacturer. The reason I have been trying to get theirs is that they have the special alignment points on their Gibbs so you can use both sides of the night. I'm not sure if a machine shop would be able to drill the very odd angles for the screws and place the alignment pins properly so that I can put the knives but who knows?
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What happened to the OEM gibs exactly?
I have worked with the head/knives before but do not recall any way they can be messed up
Joe
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Funny story. The cutterhead was originally 16 inches and in order to fit the restored jointer I had to mail it down to 12 inches. When I took the gibbs to the machinist to have them cut instead of centering the cut, they cut from one end. So if I have a set of knives and one edge gets dull I can't flip them, the alignment pins don't hold the knives correctly. So really it's my fault but I'd really like to be able to get both edges out of a set of knives.
