Joiners

[Bob G]

================= I have not read any of the replies to your question YET...but I can tell you I have owned a Rockwell 6 inch jointer for close to 40 years now... AND I will tell you that I have given it a heck of a lot of use over the years....

I VALUE BED LENGHT over cutter width...

My Rockwell has a pretty short bed...maybe 40 inches or so...and that short lenght has given me 1000 times more problems then being limited to a 6 inch wide board...

I make a lot of tables, desks, etc..and I do a lot of glue ups for tops etc..and in mist cases I limit the width of a board to about 4 to 5 inches in width anyway....

MAYBE ..and this is a true statement...in the 40 years I have owned this jointer I wished I had purchased an 8 inch jointer less then a dozen times... BUT even making that statement if I were to buy a new jointer today and the bed lenghts were equal I would buy an 8 in jointer and limit the width of my boards I use to glue up a table top to

4 inches or so... Just to save time...

GET the Longest BED you can find...

Bob Griffiths

[B a r r y B u r k e J r .]

Go on, brother!

Barry

[Montyhp]

Dave,

I had the same decision. For about 100 bucks more (including S&H), you can get the Grizz 75" long 8" wide behemoth. Very nice. No compromise.

Montyhp

[Bay Area Dave]

nice specs. Is the table and fence respectably flat and the tables coplanar? How many HP does it have?

dave

M> Dave,

[Montyhp]

Dave,

As far as I can tell, tables are coplanar and fence is flat (I don't own an expensive straight edge, just a cheap Borg aluminum version). The real proof is that I get flat wood (very nice joints and flat faces). It has two HP and 4 blades. (I guess 4 blades may be a disadvantage when I go to change them;-)