Carbides for Hafco Thicknesser worth it
I'm contemplating a Hafco T-13s thicknesser which has the helical cutter with 26 cutting blades distributed around the cylinder. Lots of Youtube reviews, all quite positive.
Standard it comes with HSS blades, but to upgrade it to carbide you have to buy 3 packs of 10 carbide inserts, at $99 each, essentially pushing the price up another $300, on top of the current $600 price. My reading of it all is that there is still nothing in the $1000 range equivalent that would make it worth jumping from a $900 purchase to the next increment, whatever that might be, that might have carbide cutters.
But I'm open to any suggestions from anyone who has trod this path.