Mike in Mystic wrote:
do you mean to imply that the floor models do NOT give nice finish cuts?

For finer finish cuts a porty planer is usually better.
Serrated infeed roller marks and all from the stationary
machines.

That spiral cutter head with the indexed carbide cutters from Grizzly sure
looks like it would give a nice finish.

Did you know those inserts leave ridges down the length of
the board? I wonder how the tighter sphinctered hobbyist
wooddorker will react to that?

My advice to the home shop owner would be to get a nice portable planer -
probably the 3 cutter head dewalt, or maybe one of the smaller spiral headed
ones from Grizzly. Then supplement this with a 16/32 or so drum sander to
handle larger panels and more gnarly wood. (you can also or additionally
buy certain hand planes to do this).

Better yet, substitute the drum sander for a stroke sander.

UA100, qwesting for a stroker...