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Originally Posted by Don Rickles
All the above....the hard woods especially the cherry woods I ran thru it would burn after only a few passes on new blades. Motor couldn't handle the sizes I tried to put through the machine. A big problem I had way back then was not having a good vacuum system, the chips would build up and clog the machine, I was clearly overworking it...Since then I did also add the Grizzly vacuum, boy did it help!
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Absolutely.
My DeWalt has had issues with some of the harder and heavier exotics. It had a difficult time with Brazilian cherry, ziricote, wenge, kingwood, and bubinga to name just a few. Ziricote is so hard, I melted a tire right off my bandsaw trying to resaw it. Last time I planed it, the built-in breaker on the planer popped several times because it was overloaded.
I have to think that staggered carbide cutterheads would have an easier time with such difficult exotics.