Consumables & accessories

The categories below are ordered roughly by how often you will buy from them. Cutters go first because they are the only consumable that wears every single hour the machine runs, and because the wrong cutter is visible in the finish immediately - a burnt edge or a torn grain is far more often a bit-and-feed-rate problem than a machine problem.

Collets are the item people replace last and should replace sooner. A collet is a precision part that loses grip as it wears, and a slipping cutter climbing out of the holder mid-pass ruins the part and sometimes the spindle. If your machine came with one collet, the shank size it accepts also silently decides which cutters you can buy at all, so check it before ordering anything.

Spoilboard and surfacing tooling matters for a different reason: it is what keeps the bed flat and square to the spindle. A surfaced spoilboard is the cheapest accuracy upgrade available to a desktop machine, and it is consumable by design - you are meant to cut into it. Dust extraction and spindle accessories come last in shopping order but first in terms of how much they change day-to-day ownership, particularly on MDF and composites where the fine fraction stays airborne long after the spindle stops.

Every price on these pages is a dated observation refreshed daily from retailer APIs, not a live quote, and anything we have not confirmed within 72 hours is labelled rather than presented as current. Fitment, where we show it, is matched on collet and shank size against the machines in our database - it is a compatibility check, not a recommendation.