-less effort required to pass material over the jointer
-super clean and tear out free surfaces

Well worth the money for me!!

Thank you Sheartak

A lot less noisy and a very good finish. Note that if the bearing case are not perfectly parallel to the tables, you may have to shim the lowest bearing case since you won’t be able to compensate with the adjustment of the knives anymore. This happen on my General 1180.

I was excited to try an indexable cutter head.... It did not dissapoint.... one of the best purchases for my little shop - easy install.... clean cuts, quieter, easy dust collection.... I have nothing bad to say .... I am doing a Oak table, my jointer handled easily... while my planer struggled... will be ordering one for the planer as soon I can afford......

Produce a wonderful finish and better chip removal from planer.

They leave a beautiful finish, so far i've only used them on Teak and the finish is awesome.

The new cutter head works great, it was pretty simple to install. This cutter head is so much quieter to use and the cut quality is fantastic. It did take a little longer than was anticipated to receive but they made it up to me by giving me an extra set of cutter knives at no extra charge. Thank you.

WOW ! Installation was a breeze, excellent bushings perfectly fitting, wood finish is like a glass and much more pleasant noise. Excellent support from Sheartak, very professional.

Upgraded my 2000 AD741 cutterhead to this. Excellent 2 part video on YouTube. Got caught up with stupid tariffs as they are in Canada & item manufactured in China but managed to get in an off tariff window. Installation was involved but not difficult. Had to re-tune jointer. Need to have the SKF round nut wrench. The knives at the ends protruded beyond the main cutter cylinder and could touch the dust shroud if not precisely centered. Sheartak provided trimmed knives when asked. I do not see any scalloping of planed wood as reported by others using the Byrd cutterhead. Overall I am quite happy with the upgrade and excellent communication with Sheartak.

Excellent upgrade for my Mikita 2012NB.
The machine is very quiet now, dust collector pulls all the wood chips with very little on the floor or on the feed tables.
Finish is by for the most impressive, no tare out or snip.
Dealing with Mike and Lucy was a pleasure.
Great product and service!

I purchased the spiral cutter head for my planer and I'm more than happy with the quality. It fitted immediately.

Installed my cutter head almost a year ago, very easy install into my DW735. To date I have not had to change any of the carbide cutters and still get a perfect finish. I would have used multiple blades of the original design. The best upgrade!

Installed easy, cuts beautiful, leaves a very smooth surface and this was the best price i could find for the quality of the product.

The most impressive part of getting a new cutter head for my Makita 1805 was the customer service that was provided. My tool had a fitment issue and the people at Sheartak took the time and effort to find a solution that worked perfectly. That being said the tool now preforms so well that I had to check that chips were flying. The cut was so quiet and the tool felt so smooth that I wasn't sure I was cutting wood. It surfaced a two inch knot in doug fir with no blow out. I have never gotten a finish with HSS straight blades like this. That being said the product was second to the help I got from the people at Sheartak. Thanks

purchased recently. i received it after ~1month for China. packed well, also got extra knives & screws as spare. the cutterhead is as awesome as they promised. replaced it in a few hours, adjusted the planer / knives. the quality is great, exactly perfect for my metabo machine. absolutely recommended for upgrades!

I am very happy with the product and my experience with Sheartak. The head itself more than meets my expectations and produces an excellent finish on any wood I have used it on. The smaller chip size it produces works much better with my vacuum system as I have not experienced any blockages as I did with the long chips produced with the original cutters. It was easy to install.

I had an after sale request, which had nothing to do with any fault of the product, which they handled with no fuss and were very accommodating. I have nothing to say, but good things in dealing with Sheartak and have no concerns in recommending them.

The jointer spiral cutterhead is very easy to install and works very well.The noise level is very low.
Very satisfay of the product

I got this cutter yesterday and used it and it works fantastic. Very smooth on both cutting surfaces with a great price.

I have three other spiral cutter heads by Byrd Shelix and they didn't have one readily available for the Makita 1806B so I got the Sheartak and it doesn't disappoint. I would say its comparable which says a lot as Byrd Shelix is the Porsche of cutter heads. I also will be a customer for any future heads I need as the company was very good to me and covered the import duties on the head to the US which they didn't have to do (and it was alot of money). Thank you again!

I've owned this for about two weeks and it's a huge upgrade to the stock cutterhead. Brought it home and planed a piece of hard birdseye maple as a test, and the planed face came out looking like a sheet of glass. Have since used it for resurfacing hardwood tabletops and rough carpentry work. Great machining and finish quality, and attentive customer service as well - I ordered the steel version but was upgraded for free to the aluminum head due to stock issues. Recommended to keep your Skil 100 cutting!

The Spiral cutter head that I wanted was on a short back order but they told me how to get to the front of the queue for delivery asap as I had a travel deadline. Absolutely fantastic service as it was shipped as soon as it was available and arrived in plenty of time. The fast and clear email responses to my questions and options made the process easy and without stress. Thanks

A great quality product that fit perfectly. I am very happy with my purchase, it upgrade a lot my old jointer. A better cutterhead like that, make my jointer like a brand new one. Now i can use it for many years with a better cut that i never had before.

I've seen people complain about different brand cutterheads sometimes leaving scallop marks. The Sheartak cutterhead hasn't left any scallop marks. Very smooth.

It took me 3 hours to remove the old cutter head and clean and lubricate the sprockets, chains and gears. Installation of the new Sheartak cutter head and new bearings and putting everything back together again took another 2 hours. No problems, pretty easy. I ran a piece of 8" wide ash through the planer, and I was really impressed, perfectly smooth finish, and really quiet operation. I'm going to enjoy this upgrade.

Installation was easy, but I made it harder than it needed to be. When it was time to put in the new head, I hit the threaded end to align it without putting back the pulley first and I damaged the threads. No big deal though, I sent it to a machining shop nearby and they fixed the threads. After installing it the right way I torqued each knife to spec I tried it and the results were very good, but I had some vert small lines showing. After realigning some of the inserts the boards came out so smooth I understood why people go crazy about these heads. When looking at the boards under light you might see some lines on them but you shouldn’t feel them with your hands. It shouldn’t matter though if you sand your projects, and it is galaxies better than the nicked straight blades I was using (I am kind of lazy about blade changes). I took the same 1/16 passes I usually do and the motor doesn’t seem to be working significantly harder than with the standard head, time will tell if the motor likes the upgrade or not. Noise is reduced but you absolutely will need ear protection anyway. Hard maple usually teared out a lot with the last set of straight blades I had, and the maple test piece came out flawless.

Overall very satisfied, after three years of buying straight knives I feel like this cutterhead is going to save me some money and tearout induced headache.

Positive: Near perfect surface-quality of planed boards after the switch. High-quality feeling for everything: the new shaft with four sets of ten helical seats for inserts, the carbide inserts and the bearings. Drenched in oil.
Negative: Price. My suspicion is that Sheartak lacks serious competition in the pimp-your-amateur-planer market and can charge whatever they want - the new cutter was around twice what I paid for the whole planer. But I will admit, I have no idea what it costs to make a high-quality cutter head like that. There isn't a proper installation instruction. They do link to YouTube video made by some guy. The video is far from trivial to follow and after having done it, I'm pretty sure there are easier and faster ways to do it. Nonetheless, the video kinda works after some head-scratching.
Conclusion: Despite a vague feeling of having been taken to the cleaners, I'm happy with this purchase. The original HSS knives that came with the machine were degrading already after very light use and were getting on my nerves. Most importantly, the surface quality is now near perfect - for many uses, sanding becomes optional.