A jointer is an excellent addition to any woodworking
shop. In fact, it is nearly essential for any
serious woodworker to have a jointer. Nearly
all of the wood stock you will get from your
local lumber dealer will be bowed, cupped,
slightly twisted or of uneven thickness. The
jointer allows you to plane the faces and edges
of boards to straighten them. To get your board
stock as straight and true as possible, you
will first true one face with the jointer and
then put the board through a thickness planer
to make each face straight and parallel with
one another.
Wood planers are used to reduce the thickness
of a board and to make the two faces parallel
to one another. The usual method for doing this
is to first run the board through a jointer and
get one face and one edge straight and true.
Then, put the straight side of the board face
down in the wood planer and shave the board to
the desired thickness along its entire length.
If the board is too wide for the planer, it can
be ripped with a table saw into narrower boards.
Each of these narrow boards can be planed and
then glued back together.
Projects
Turn Out Better With Straight Edges From Jointer
One
of the most highly regarded planers on the
market is the delta planer. Delta makes a variety
of planer models, including both stationary
and portable. The stationary models come in
several board widths, up to 24 inches. The
portable models will plane boards up to 12-1/2
inches wide to a uniform thickness.
The Craftsman brand of Sears tools has been
highly regarded for years. The company has delivered
high quality tools to do-it-yoursefers, with
excellent repair and warranty support for years.
Among this list of quality tools for the home
workshop are several models of craftsman jointer.
These models include both stationary, bench top
and finishing biscuit jointers.
In setting up the home workshop, it is a matter
of personal preference which tool, the jointer
or the planer, that is purchased first. Most
woodworkers find that when they get one, they
go ahead and add the second one as quickly as
possible. Some do-it-yourselfers go ahead, bite
the bullet, and buy both at the same time. Either
way, these great tools will allow you to start
your projects with straight and true board stock
by using a jointer.
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