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Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« on: March 14, 2009, 05:31:53 pm »
I recently came across an ebay listing of "Craftmaster 82mm tungsten carbide planer blades". Now my planer takes 12 1/2" knives, but I was wondering if tungsten carbide knives are worth the money and if they are any better than HSS.
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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2009, 07:03:57 pm »
If they are in fact what is stated in the add, then YES. I have a Esta Desposa system on my Powermatic  24" planer. I was not impressed w/ their HSS, would NEVER buy the system again, BUT I spent the $ on the Tungsten and they have been worth the money. Now mind you my knives are VERY thin so the cost difference for solid Tung may be too high, but for my upgrade (from a mediocre system to start) it was worth it. Can you tell I am NOT impressed w/ Esta? ::) I finally bought a knife grinder in the last few months and may switch back to standard HSS full size blades after 8-10 years of Esta. My planing is admittedly tough, w/ bark inclusions, edges and such, but sometimes right out of the box the Esta HSS things would chip just looking at my planing jobs ::) ;D. I suppose if you are doing soft wood, or all dimensional softer hardwoods it might work but I am not impressed.

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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2009, 07:12:19 pm »
Well sounds like I should look at a set or a few then. ;)
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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2009, 10:30:29 pm »
I take my 15" planer knives to a very good sarpening shop that has been around for years.  They only sell high grade HSS.  There are different grades.  I bought a set of AMANA German made HSS kinves from them for my jointer.  They are way better than the Grizzly knives that came on it.   I was supprised that they did not recommend carbide kinves but they said too many customers complain of chiping or edge breakage.
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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2009, 10:47:53 pm »
Full on carbide blades are really expensive too.
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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2009, 06:32:41 am »
carbide=long lasting but "brittle" medium. Hence breakage.

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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2009, 09:31:42 am »
Isn't tungsten carbide a little less brittle?
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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2009, 11:44:14 am »
Possibly as my knives had up better than I expected

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Re: Tungsten Carbide planer knives
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2009, 03:58:24 pm »
Quote from: tyb525 on March 15, 2009, 09:31:42 am
Isn't tungsten carbide a little less brittle?

Tungsten carbide = carbide.
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