"Dave Rowell" wrote in message
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One concern I have is whether or not you have problems with
blades flexing, resulting in cupped or crowned blades. I'm still a
little bit worried about the balancing issues, but I see most people
don't seem to have problems. Do you do anything special to make sure
blades in a set all have roughly equal mass? How much time does it take
to do a set of 3 13" knives?

When I jointed a bunch of green oak (I know, it was pretty abusive on the
equipment) with my Grizz 0500 I ended up having to clean off a significant
amount of pitch from the knives. There is no way that the same amount of
pitch lodged on each knife. If the amount of pitch as compared to the mass
of the cutterhead was significant, I would have had a real problem. I don't
think that a small amount of difference in the blades is significant (the
cutterhead is only going 7000 rpm or so, we're not talking about a jet
engine here).

Thanks for the info.

No problem

Dave R.

Montyhp
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