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Lou_williams
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Dec-14-00, 07:18 PM (EST) |
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1. "RE: Jointers 6"vs8" help!"
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Your friends right for a couple of reasons. First, The best use of a Jointer is to true a board on two sides, one edge and one face. After a face has been trued you put it through a planner and you have two flat parallel surfaces of equal thickness. Do you ever have stock wider than 6 inches? The edge at 90 to the face gives you the true edge to rip to the correct size and allow you to glue pannels that don't require excess clamp pressure so they stay glued long term Second, The 8 inch jointers are better built than lots of the 6 inch. You will have a machine that is built for professionals and will give you a long term good result. They are heavier, easier to adjust, easier to keep adjusted. I have a 10 inch combo jointer/planner, I love it but would rather have two different tools. Set up only takes a few seconds but I sometimes have to go back and forth. I don't always set it up to plane when I should. |
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David
Member since Jun-11-02
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Dec-14-00, 10:45 PM (EST) |
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2. "RE: Jointers 6"vs8" help!"
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I have the Grizzly 6" jointer. It came in 2 boxes. The base in one and the bed in the other. It took about 1 hour to assemble it by myself but it did require a bit to get the pulleys aligned and I never could get them perfect so I did have some table vibration, but I put a link belt on (love those darn things) and it quieted right down. the knives were easily nicked so order a replacement set. The motor seems strong, I havn't had a problem with running any hardwoods through it. I"m pretty happy with the 6", I dont feel limited on my workspace with it. In general, I dont work with boards wider than 6" though. If I do, I usually glue up panels. There's some debate about the stability of a wide board vs multiple narrow boards glued up. I think I heard one guy say you should never use a board over 4" wide and he'll even rip an 8" board into 1/2 and glue them up to relieve some stress. Anyway, Should I need to surface a wide board, I have a 13" planer for it, and an old trick is to shim the board on a carrier board through the planer. It works, and I'm happy with it... and thats good enough for me. Good luck. |
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