[hawkeye10]

Barry I have a lot of the same problems your having. The way I understand it while face or edge jointing you need to press more on the rear part of the board then when it gets about half way across the cutter head press more on the front of the board and very little if any on the rear. I do this but still have problems. One thing that would help us both is to get helical cutter heads for our jointer and thickness planer. The problem is cost ( they ain't cheap ). I have heard that the best things in life are free but that doesn't apply to wood working.

PS- This is the reason I buy straight run lumber that is 13/16" thick. I was trying to edge joint a piece of hard maple yesterday that was 20" long. It had a slight bow on the edge with the two ends being high. I could never get it dead flat so I took it to the table saw and ripped the other side turned it around and ripped the bow out and then squared up both ends. There is some really good wood workers here so maybe they will help us out.

 

[hawkeye10]

David, i checked the tables by raising the infeed table to the height of the outfeed and used a couple of my longest straightedges to make sure they were flat from end to end and from front to back. The knife blade just barely touched the straightedge. Then, I took my Wixly angle gage, set it on the outfeed table and zeroed it. I moved it along the entire length of both infeed and outfeed tables and it remained at zero. Then, I lowered the infeed table about 1/2", which is more than I've ever lowered it, and the angle gage remained at zero which showed that moving the infeed table didn't cant it in any direction. Again, if there's more that I can do please let me know.

From what i've read, i might be putting too much pressure on the outfeed too early and letting up on the infeed too early. Tomorrow, if it's not too hot in the garage, I'm in Florida now, I'll experiment with some scrap lumber. I really can't afford to keep wasting hardwood.

And, Don, if I had the money to put helical heads on my jointer and planner, I'd use it to air condition my garage.

I am with you on that Barry. Putting in an AC was the first thing I did. :wink: