I have been considering this as well. I bought a craftsman jointer and found it to be junk.. the fence was aluminum and could not get it square to the talbe. Took it back and bought the 5 1/4 model or something like that.... same deal. Need good cast iron table and fence on a jointer. I got my money back on that one as well and have been jointer less for 15 plus years... I have a small shop and would like a small one that was worth something.. I just don't know if they exsist.
Question to all of you, I have a bench dog router table that has a built in jointer feature where you put in these aluminum shims in the fence. (2 different sizes available) and supposedly you can joint a board on this. I bought some box stock on EBay and I am pretty sure I am going to need to joint these boards to get a square edge to rip on. Do you think it will work? I have a 1/4 spiral bit and a dozen or more 2 flute straights of different sizes?
Thanks,
Corey |