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Barry Daniels
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I guess you will have to resort to hand planing.
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My Safety planer gets a lot of use, both by me and by my students. A set of cutters lasts me about 12-15 years, as near as I can tell. You might be able to find some replacements on E-bay before yours get used up. I bought a spare set from Grizzly when I heard the company had gone out of business, and still have five or six years left in the cutters on the tool, so I figure I'm good for another 20 years or so. By then I'll be almost 85, and may well not be making as many guitars or teaching as much.

There is another company making a similar tool.
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However their cutters don't fit Wagner's tool...

I'm even wondering why don't anyone produce replacement cutters for the tool? It doesn't look all that complicated to machine. In fact I'm even wondering about carbide cutters for this tool that would make the cutters last even longer...

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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Alan Carruth wrote:
I figure I'm good for another 20 years or so. By then I'll be almost 85, and may well not be making as many guitars or teaching as much.

Get outta here .. you'll still be doing this when you're 100 years old ...
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Tai Fu wrote:
However their cutters don't fit Wagner's tool.... In fact I'm even wondering about carbide cutters for this tool that would make the cutters last even longer...

And a diamond sharpening wheel for the carbide cutters would be good too......

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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