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- From: bennett@adobe.com(Bennett Leeds)
- Subject: Re: re: Jointer vs Planer - Thanks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.181808.12003@adobe.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:18:08 GMT
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- Daniel Ouellet writes
- > In article <4320097@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>, gph@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (G. Paul
- Houtz) writes:
- > |> bennett@adobe.com(Bennett Leeds) writes:
- > |>
- > |> >To my way of thinking, it's easier to make a jig to adapt another machine
- > |> >to perform jointing tasks than it is to adapt another machine to perform
- > |> >thickness planing tasks. That's my bottom line on this.
- > |>
- > |> Yup. Tag Frid shows how to make a jig that turns a jointer into a
- > |> thickness planer, and I wish I had known about that before I bough
- > |> the planer.
- > |>
- >
- > Can you please provide a more precise reference for this. It sounds
- > quite interesting to me.
-
- According to my Fine Woodworking index, issue #19 page 94, and issue #51.
- I could not find the jig in Frid's 3 volumne hardcover book set.
-
- The softcovers "FWW on Proven Shop Tips" & "FWW on More Proven Shop Tips"
- each have a short description of a jig for this purpose as well. The first
- is rather unappealing, as it requires rabbeting the boards accurately and
- using those rabbets to index the thickness.
-
- The second uses a broad spring on the infeed table to force the wood up
- against a "bed" that is bolted to the jointer above the knives. You
- adjust the thickness by adding or removing shims from the bolts, thus
- raising or lowering the bed. With heavy boards you'd need a strong spring,
- there's no power feed so the results may be inconsistent, and bolting and
- unbolting to add/remove shims has got be a painful way to adjust thickness.
-
- The books also discuss jigs that enable face jointing using a thickness
- planer. These may be useful even if you have a jointer, since chances
- are your planer is considerably wider.
-
- - Bennett Leeds
- bennett@adobe.com
-