Abstract: A cutter blade (17) for a finger joint cutter head (10) which includes a cantilevered cutting tip attachment. A cantilever pocket (20) is formed in the fillet area of steel backing member (18) to receive and hold the inner end of a hard material cutting tip (19), such as tungsten carbide. Cantilever pocket (20) has tapered sides which diverge outwardly and a rounded vertex or pocket bottom. Cutter tips are elongated to extend well into cantilever pockets (20). Each cutter tip is attached within a pocket (20) and along the joint surface of steel backing members (18), using a sandwich braze, to form braze joints (21) and (22).

Abstract: A combination finger joint cutter head having a pair of adjustable cutter assemblies, that cut a plurality of finger joints in an end of a wood piece, and a pair of adjustable trim knives, wherein a single adjusting means extends or retracts the pair of knives, thereby changing the finger joint length slightly to either loosen or tighten the joint.