Yes, I purchased a 2 head, 36" superbrush less than a year ago. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Ive been less than impressed with the quality of the machine to be honest. Its assembled with a hodge podge of parts. You will need both metric and american wrenches to work on it. Switching over between heads is time consuming and intensive (say 30 minutes or so of disassembling and re-assembling the machine). The motor mounts keep bending as they are not stout enough. According to Laguna this has to do with too much torque on the head (too much contact on a pass). I felt I was "sold" a bit more than this machine has delivered. One of the biggest selling points for me was the "texture recipes" I was told they had. Apparently theyve run all kinds of material and I was hoping to get a "feeds and speeds" best practices of sorts. After mailing samples "that got lost at their facility" I never did get a solid answer. After a few calls, we did manage to get things under way but nowhere near what I was expecting for the price I paid.

As for the positives, we like the finished results...many options for texture.

I believe their price at 23k or so is too much for what you get.

Thanks to both of you for info.

Ryan,
Have you ever run a veneered panel through the wire brush? I’m thinking rift red or white oak.

Al
I had a superbrush 36x2. It worked well, but I thought the same as ryan, it seemed kinda cobbled together for the price. The dust collection on mine was horrible. We eventually made a skirt out of some shower liner that helped contain the dust a little better. I changed machines after a year and bought a felder. It is a much nicer machine for the money, although the dust collection still isn’t great if your running thicker materials. We run veneered ply all the time, mostly rift WO with good results. I’m sure someone will chime in here saying that’s a bad idea, but it works for us.

Interesting machines, I wasn’t even aware of them, I wouldn’t say running veneered panels is a bad idea, I would say that I am surprised that the machine doesn’t damage veneered panels? The brushes must be soft enough to not go through the veneer.
I was thinking I would like to have a machine similar to this for just doing solid wood, generally pieces less than a foot wide. I think depending on the design of the brushes it might be more feasible to build your own. The dollar values mentioned are quite high for the quality of machine by the sounds of it.

I have not run veneer panels through the machine. If your thinking plywood with super thin veneer; the wire brush I have is way too aggressive for that. I believe the nylon brush (80 grit) is too aggressive as well.

Al
We have had a 9741 Makita wire brush sander for a couple years. Works for us on the occasional job. We do a lot of rustic floating shelves with it. Edges and faces
We actually do quite a bit of MDF core Rift White oak , I get shop grade when available. Most jobs get finished with glaze to hang in the recesses.
All parts get wire brushed ,finished flat panel. Flat Conversion Varnish topcoats.
It does get to be a bit much on larger jobs . The home office took one guy all day to do and it is best to just have one guy do it for consistency. Like anything - Upcharge for special finishes !
Buy it - Not cheap - you'll still need it for what you can't send thru a big machine. But it's not 20 k either..

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