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Taking Rough Wood to the Next Step

Buying a Jointer

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Know the Joy of Jointers

~ by David Wall

There's an elemental pleasure to be derived from using a jointer. You start with a ragged-edged piece of wood. You turn it on its side and run it over the jointer's spinning knives. The stock that comes out the other side has a smooth, straight, planed edge. The jointer is the first step in transforming rough pieces into finished products.

This 6-inch woodworking jointer from Jet features a three-knife cutterhead that allows rapid cutting and a superior finish. The 46" cast-iron bed has a precision-machined finish ensuring accuracy, and a 2-way tilting fence with 45° and 90° positive stops with conveniently mounted center fence controls that allow for quick adjustment.

Other features include easy-to-use hand wheels that fully adjust the infeed and outfeed table height, a built-in rabbeting ledge, 6-1/16" x 1/2" cutting capacity, and 1/2" rabbeting capacity. Your jointer purchase includes front and rear safety knife guards, 3 high speed steel knives, 4" dust chute, industrial motor controls, one-piece welded stand, and jack screw cutterhead.

Like many shop tools, jointers come in bench and floor varieties. Bench jointers are relatively small units that are meant to be bolted to a stand or a tabletop. The larger floor jointers are mounted on a heavy base that sits directly on the floor of your shop.

  • Heavy duty 3/4-HP, 115/23-Volt, single-phase induction-type motor
  • Cast iron wedge bed design for solid support
  • Fully adjustable infeed and outfeed tables that operate on gibbed dovetail ways to compensate for wear
  • Lever-actuated infeed table, with lock handle, for quick, easy height adjustment
  • Removable on-off switch to prevent unauthorized use of machine
  • 2-year limited warranty on machines, parts, and accessories

  • 1-1/2-horsepower, single-phase motor delivers 16,500 cuts per minute for a smooth finish
  • Extra-long 42-inch infeed table for supporting long work
  • Cast-iron fence tilts 45 degrees in and out with positive stops for easy set up
  • Built-in rabbeting ledge allows cuts up to 5/8 of an inch deep
  • 2-year warranty

  • 10-amp, 120-volt motor for smooth, powerful cutting action
  • Center-mounted fence adjusts quickly and easily for less down time
  • Easy to adjust infeed table for fast set up
  • Extra large table to support stock up to a full 6" wide
  • 2-year limited warranty on machines, parts, and accessories

A jointer's infeed and outfeed tables should match the size of the work you plan to do. While it's important that your workpiece be well supported at all points in the jointing process, don't shun a particular model because its tables seem short. It's pretty easy to build table extensions yourself.

  • 1 HP, 120/240-volt induction motor
  • Enclosed stand, dust collector connector
  • Center-mounted fence, 3-knife cutterhead, cutterhead guard, push blocks
  • Five year limited warranty on machines, parts and accessories

  • Powerful 1-HP motor for efficient cutting
  • Extra large center mounted cast iron fence with rack and pinion adjustment
  • Three knife cutterhead provides 14,400 cuts per minute for a smooth finish
  • Two-year limited warranty on machines, parts, and accessories

  • 3-knife cutterhead module
  • Cutterhead guard with wrenches
  • Rabbeting ledge, tilting fence
  • Push blocks and two pulleys
  • Center locking fence
David Wall is the author of several books on Java and the Internet.