Hermance Helical Cutterheads
For Planers, Moulders, and Jointers

Hermance Helical Cutterhead for Planers, Moulders, and Jointers

Cutterhead Benefits:

  • Reduces Grain Tear Out
  • True Shearing Cut
  • Decreased Noise
  • Increase Knife Life
  • Improved Chip Removal
  • Throws Chips Toward Dust Collection
  • Minimizes Typical Ridge Lines On Hardwoods
 Hermance's Helical Cutterhead, available for planers, jointers, and moulders is designed to offer several important advantages over traditional spiral cutterheads.
  1. Hermance helical cutterhead knives are turned at an angle and tilted. Many spiral heads have the knives strike the wood at a 90 degree angle. Only the Hermance heads cut with a true shearing action giving an incredibly smooth finish without needing special knives.
  2. Hermance cutterheads are engineered to support carbide knives on three sides to reduce blade chipping and cracking.
  3. Hermance cutterheads are aerodynamically designed to run more quitely than straight blade or any other cutterheads. Preliminary tests have shown a 15-20dB reduction when run on an SCM Superset compared to a straight blade moulder head.

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Planer and Jointer Cutterheads

Hermance manufactures journal style cutters for the following machinery brands:

Baxter Whitney Invicta Pinheiro
Bridgewood Midwest Powermatic
Buss Newman Rockwell
Casadei Newman Whitney SAC
Crescent Northfield SCM
Delta Northtech Timesavers
Delta/Rockwell Oliver Yates
General OSI  

Baxter Whitney #97 Installed With A Hermance Helical Cutterhead
Moulder Heads
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Cut Diameter Cut Length Wings
4” 4” 6
4” 6” 6
4” 9” 6
5” 4” 8
5” 6” 8
5” 9” 8
5 ½” 4” 8
5 ½” 6” 8
5 ½” 9” 8
6” 4” 8
6” 9” 8

*Straight bores available 1¼”, 35mm, 1 ½”,40mm, 1 13/16”, and 2 1/8”

Choice of Steel or Aluminum

Customer Testimonials

The following is a testimonial from Bailey Wood Products:

I want to let you know that we are very pleased with the new Hermance Helical Cutterhead that was recently installed in our SCMi Planer. It does an excellent job surfacing all of the hardwoods that we sell. The finish on the harder species with irregular grain is superb. We could not achieve a finish without any tear out on a straight knife cutterhead as we are producing with the new helical. We are also pleased with the dramatically reduced noise that the new head makes in comparison to the straight knife head. I can plane Hickory and stand beside the machine and hold a conversation with another person, and we can actually hear each other. The sound reduction is truly a blessing.

I am also sure that it will pay for itself quickly in the cost savings that we will get due to a much longer run time between sharpenings. We have run several thousand board feet through and it is cutting as well as when the cutters were new. I am sure that with clean material and care we can go a long time on these inserts before we will need to turn them to another sharp edge. It has saved us in down time to change knives. We would have had to change out knives at least twice since we had the new head installed. Our customers are also pleased with the results.

Wishing you and all of the crew at Hermance a healthy and joyous Christmas and New year!
Regards,

Jeffrey Schucker

Call us at (570) 326-9156 for price purchasing information or contact us via our Looking to Buy form.