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Your cart is empty.The newly released 8" jointer with cast iron tables, longer fence and fence supports. The much anticipated cast iron tables provide a total working length of 54" when extensions are fully lengthened. The new fence is 20% longer with the addition of fence support brackets. The spiral cutterhead comes standard with 16 indexable 2-sided inserts to create perfectly flat and square boards to start off any project the right way. From simple flatting, to correcting defects in boards to edge jointing, the 8" Cutech jointer is a valuable tool to deliver the precision cuts that woodworkers need to make their projects come to life.
Charles Houk
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2025
So far so good. I fine tuned the table upon receipt and used it on 3 projects so far.Very clean and true cuts.Highly recommend at this price point.
PSBuilder
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024
Only small adjustments out of the box, otherwise performing well.Dust collection without a suction hose is problematic and disappointing. The design of the dust port causes shavings to pile up behind an internal curb. A simple change in the design that would keep a smooth internal slope for the shavings to follow from the cutter heads all the way to the dust port mouth would prevent that to a large degree.
james
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2023
Overall, I'm happy to have this. Tables were pretty close to dialed in from the factory but I decided to go through the process to familiarize myself and to dial it in a little better. It can be a time consuming process.I like the extra support brackets for the fence and couldn't imagine using a machine without them. That being said, it was a pain to get the fence dialed in. In fact, it was SO far off that one end of the fence would line up over the edge of the table while the other end was completely hanging off the edge of the table. I ended up using a washer as a spacer for the fastener that holds the fence to the machine and it lines up just about perfectly now. This is with the fence at 90 degrees to the table.The machine is relatively quiet, my opinion - actually surprisingly quiet.My cuts were anywhere from ever so slightly scalloped to pretty darned straight. I figure this will improve as I get used to my feed technique and get the tables dialed in as best as possible but it is definitely an improvement when working with hardwood boards without finished edges which is exactly why I bought it.Ultimately, I am happy with my purchase and looking forward to taking advantage of its strengths with upcoming projects.
tr888
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2023
The 8 inch Cutech portable bench-top jointer with segmented cutterhead and cast iron tables is a very good jointer for the money. Cutech customer service and tech support have been excellent. The machine has shortcomings but the shortcomings are those of the entire class of machine; there is no jointer clearly superior to the Cutech in the contemporary short-bed bench-top jointer format and there are plenty of machines that are not as good as the Cutech in one or more respects.The infeed and outfeed tables were co-planar right out-of-the-box. it was well protected against dings during transit, but benchtop tool manufacturers need to come up with an alternative to styrofoam/polystyrene, such as custom cardboard layer pads (see pic).I find the Cutech fence alignment mechanism to be relatively crude. But I don't know of a superior fence design in this contemporary bench-top format. For a more robust and reliable fence design in a new machine, you would have to triple the price and triple the weight of the machine, or hunt down a vintage short-bed jointer, which are rare, and then you'd be giving up dust collection and easy blade changes.The Cutech jointer's noise level is also painfully high. PPE for your ears is a must. A jointer with a 3400 RPM induction motor will be like a buzzing bumblebee compared to the piercing whine of the Cutech's 12,000 RPM universal motor. (The Cutech gets quieter while it's cutting. Under zero load it screams.) But if a 200-pound $1,600 jointer with induction motor is not something you can manage financially and/or physically, or you need the jointer now and don't want to spend months looking for a vintage short-bed machine in ready-to-use condition, the Cutech offers very good price-performance for around $500, and in my experience the company has been very good to work with.There is a lot of misinformation on the internet surrounding Cutech and another company that once was acting as US distributor of the Cutech brand. Cutech's parent organization, Shinmax in Taiwan, cut ties with that distributor. Cutech did not rebrand itself under a new name. Some of the problems that have been attributed to Cutech were actually the result of that former distributor continuing to use the Cutech brand name and continuing to use the Cutech website after ties had been severed.
Doug
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2023
My jointer arrived on 4/20/2023 - I have already ran several boards through it - all 2x4s roughly 5 ft in length. The results are excellent. I can only compare this to a Jet Jointer JJ-6CSX which I sold. I like the portability of this in my one car garage vs the standing jointer. the additional width compared to my old jointer is a nice welcome too, though I have yet to use it. Out of the box, the cast iron tables were well greased from factory and did not need any adjusting for my particular unit. I was happy about this because it seems like a pain to adjust the tables. Most benchtop jointers require the same level of adjusting so I am not going to ding cutech for this design. I'm sure they all come out of the same factory with different logos and colors on them. The wings that extend work well and I am happy to have them. Fence is easy to install and get to a perfect 90. Carbide spiral cutter heads seem easy to replace if one gets damaged. my previous jointer had straight blades and that required a more meticulous change. dust collection works well I have it hooked up to my wall mounted powertech dust collector. I have the 4 inch adapter kit from rockwell that I use on other tools as well. The longer fence with additional brackets to keep it at 90 is nice addition too. This is the only jointer with that system so far. I'm sure other will eventually catch on. Larger tools are nice, but when they become complicated to use it makes me want to use them less. This is plug and play. Will provide updates as I run wider longer boards through it and hardwoods.
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