[Jerry Bowen]

Barry,
Forgive me for asking this, but I don't understand from your photo what the problem is, I am not saying of course that you don't have one, it's just that I don't do well understanding pictures as well as most people do. Can explain it to me.

I do use my jointer and thickness planer with almost every piece of wood that I use in a project. I have never had the a problem with my 6" Grizzly jointer after getting it adusted so that I get no snipe. Getting the outfeed table adjusted so that I got no snipe took some putzzing with, but now I just run material over the jointer paying little attention to how I do it other than keeping the material hard down as it passes over the cutters and it does a perfect job every time. I do take several shallow cuts until the material is cleaned up and then to to the thickness planer and again take very shallow cuts with it also. The jointer does have helical cutting heads and tht might be why I have had such good luck with it.

I of course don't know what to tell you, but I maight have an idea if you can find time to give me a "verbal description of what is going on. I am sure that I am wrong about this or somebody would have mentioned it by now, but it looks like some sort of a snipe issue, but of course that can't be it. It is does however just about have to be omething in your set up. What planer do you have by the way?

Changing subjects now, I do recognize that many wood workers find no need for a jointer, and others, lsuch as myself do like them. I just understand how material can be milled without one so that it is square and all sides are parallel with each other, but that's probable due to my lack of experience and/or knowledge about such things so just cut me some slack on that point if you don't agree with me. I seem to do a lot of things that a lot of folks don't agree with.

I am looking forward to Barry getting his problem solved and know what he did to get the planer working to his satisfaction. I know that he is a perfectionist and very knowledgable about woodworking. I also hope that he can get settled into his new home and have more time to work in his new shop.

Jerry

 

[Jerry Bowen]

I was looking at my jointer and thinking maybe check the knives with a gauge. They could be too low which would make the table seem to be too high. I think the knives should be the same height as the outfeed table at the highest point of the knives all across.

What you are aluding to Lee is what I found to be the biggest issue in setting up my jointer. It took some messing with to get the outfeed table spot on level with the hightest point of the knives. Once that was accomplished the jointer works beautifully and it does not seem to make any difference where I apply the downward pressure to the workpiece. I do of course do my best to keep that pressure down hard above the knives.

Jerry

 

[Jerry Bowen]

Quick update. I pulled a muscle in my back putting some shelving in a new closet so I haven't been in the shop in a few days. This morning I decided to check the jointer setup once again. It turned out right but I had a "Duh!" moment that, somewhat embarrassing, I want to share. I knew the infeed and outfeed tables were coplanar. I checked it multiple times with every straightedge that I have in the shop. The last thing was the blade height. I had eyeballed it by laying a an engineers square on the outfeed table and turning the blades. They just touched it but that was eyeball. Then I began to wonder if there was some way I could use my Digiline gage to check it. I bought it for my table saw and that's all l used it for. I looked at the directions that came with it and it was all about table saws. As I turned the box around, there was a picture of how to set it up to check jointer blades. After my headache passed from slapping my forehead with the palm of my hand I decided to try it. Although the tip of the gage is round, a flat one would work better, I was able to check each knife at both ends and in the center. They were all within .002 so I figure that's close enough. Hopefully, in the next day or two my back will permit me to cut up some lumber and run it through the jointer taking note of how i'm putting pressure on the piece as it moves across the cutter head.

I guess my take away from this is to "think outside the box" since that's where the picture was

Good to get the good news Barry. Jerry

 

[Jerry Bowen]

Perhaps one of the issues with setting up the tables on a jointer is that we need to do it so seldom and consequently we aren't as proficient at it as me would be if we had to do more often.

I am thankful that my jointer has the helican cutters. That along with the fact that I'm in the shop as much as I'd like to be means, or I think that it means, that I won't every have to mess with the set ever again.

Even though my time in the shop is relative shorter these days than it used to be, I would not want to be with out it. Almost of of my workpieces are run over the jointer and through the thickness planer. Why do I that you ask, just because I like to to is the ony answer that I can give.

Jerry

 

[Jerry Bowen]

Perhaps one of the issues with setting up the tables on a jointer is that we need to do it so seldom and consequently we aren't as proficient at it as me would be if we had to do more often.

I am thankful that my jointer has the helican cutters. That along with the fact that I'm in the shop as much as I'd like to be means, or I think that it means, that I won't every have to mess with the set ever again.

Even though my time in the shop is relative shorter these days than it used to be, I would not want to be with out it. Almost of of my workpieces are run over the jointer and through the thickness planer. Why do I that you ask, just because I like to to is the ony answer that I can give.

Jerry

Actually the rough cut lumber that I buy has to be cleaned up as the surfaces of the lumber is actually, "very rogh" and needs to be cleaned before it can be used.

Jerry