Jointer Planing

[mac davis]

or the friggin ends!! I buy S4S or better due to lack of tools... and it's really rare that either end is cut square in either direction..

[Doug Miller]

Not quite.

Jointers are for faces *and* edges: make a face straight and flat, then make an edge straight and square to the face.

Then you take the board to the planer, to make the *other* face parallel to the one you jointed.

Finally, it goes to the table saw, to have the other edge ripped parallel to the jointed one.

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[Silvan]

I saw a real gem today. Walnut. Put one end flat on the floor, and it made a great big (. Quality.

[Charlie Self]

mac davis responds:

They are designed for different tasks, but a jointer works on the face, too, removing cup and similar affliction. They just cannot reliably produce parallel sides, so a planer is needed.

Charlie Self "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)

[Mike Marlow]

Yup - that's why you have to look at the wood. Bad wood comes in all sizes, and species.

[Mike Marlow]

Hmmmmm.... wouldn't it have to be S6S if the ends were cut square?

[mac davis]

maybe it would be S4S2E ??