I am trying to dress some 4/4 kiln dried birch. I have a 6" jointer and I put new blades in it and set them even with the outfeed table. A lot of little chipping is happening whatever that is technically called. I tried different feed rates, depth of cut from practically nothing up to 3/32", flipping stock end for end all with no help. Would dust collectionn help? Is birch just very hard to dress? Carbide blades (but they are 170 bucks for 3 and HSS are 15). Thanks for any tips.
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18 years ago