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Today, the journey began. Bringing an 8" short-bed General jointer (Quebec built) from over 2 decades of neglect. The gentleman we purchased it from, said the machine had belonged to his father, who had passed on over 2 decades ago. The father owned the tools and enjoyed tinkering with wood. The jointer, along with a General bandsaw, tablesaw, and others were kept in a loft section of the father's hardwood flooring commercial unit. After his father passed, the gentleman didn't know what to do with the tools. He noted that they weren't in the way, and that he didn't have any plans to use them.
At the time of the purchase, it was around the first month's end of coronavirus, the business was having a hard time, and so items were being cleared from the storage area. The unit had 2 loft spaces, one on the north side, a main floor extending beneath it, and extending all the way to the south side, where there was a second loft section.
The jointer was bought for a good price. We've never owned a jointer, and after looking at it, we figured we would take a chance on it. Along with the jointer, the gentleman threw in about 500 board feet of unknown hardwoods in all sorts of different sizes. Some of the boards 3-4" thick. The wood had also been sitting in the shop for 20 years - it's nicely dried
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Attached are some pictures of the jointer disassembled. After doing some reading on this forum, and seeing some of the tool restorations, we went ahead with using a towel and an electrolytic solution on the bed to start the cleaning. Today, a few "cycles" were done, with minimal scraping with a razor and sanding with fine sandpaper to remove the iron dust, afterwards.
As we progress, we'll try to post pictures to show the tables all cleaned up, the cutterhead cleaned up, the fence cleaned up, and the final state of the machine. Ultimately the paint is not great, and obviously will need to be redone someday. For now, utilitarian needs are to be met, later - aesthetics.
Thank you to the forum members here who were willing to discuss their process with me through their restorations. We're looking forward to the machine being in service on our end!
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At the time of the purchase, it was around the first month's end of coronavirus, the business was having a hard time, and so items were being cleared from the storage area. The unit had 2 loft spaces, one on the north side, a main floor extending beneath it, and extending all the way to the south side, where there was a second loft section.
The jointer was bought for a good price. We've never owned a jointer, and after looking at it, we figured we would take a chance on it. Along with the jointer, the gentleman threw in about 500 board feet of unknown hardwoods in all sorts of different sizes. Some of the boards 3-4" thick. The wood had also been sitting in the shop for 20 years - it's nicely dried
. Attached are some pictures of the jointer disassembled. After doing some reading on this forum, and seeing some of the tool restorations, we went ahead with using a towel and an electrolytic solution on the bed to start the cleaning. Today, a few "cycles" were done, with minimal scraping with a razor and sanding with fine sandpaper to remove the iron dust, afterwards.
As we progress, we'll try to post pictures to show the tables all cleaned up, the cutterhead cleaned up, the fence cleaned up, and the final state of the machine. Ultimately the paint is not great, and obviously will need to be redone someday. For now, utilitarian needs are to be met, later - aesthetics.
Thank you to the forum members here who were willing to discuss their process with me through their restorations. We're looking forward to the machine being in service on our end!
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