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I am looking to get a joiner to start gluing some of my own platter blanks and smaller projects. Things like the multiple wood pepper mills and rolling pins.

Any advice on brands and size? I figure a 6 inch should be enough.

Thanks
 
dogdriver said:
I am looking to get a joiner to start gluing some of my own platter blanks and smaller projects. Things like the multiple wood pepper mills and rolling pins.

Any advice on brands and size? I figure a 6 inch should be enough.

Thanks
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Oh lord I hope this doesn't kick off one of those "Be a man and use a hand plane" debates.

Take if from a complete power tool junkie, for what you want to do any small 6" jointer is gonna do the job. I'll be selling my Delta 6" in a month when my new 8" one arrives at the dealer. Where are ya? I'll make ya a deal :D

....Ooops... Alaska huh? Um, nevermind.
 
Greg,

It's only a short week and a half drive from where you are at 8 hours a day... (I crammed it into two weeks once... :eek: )

Take a vacation. :D
 
underdog said:
Greg,

It's only a short week and a half drive from where you are at 8 hours a day... (I crammed it into two weeks once... :eek: )

Take a vacation. :D
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Better, yet, take the cruise and eat your way to Alaska! You can put the jointer in as extra baggage . . . :D
 
I think there was a jointer shootout in the mags in the last year or so. Personally I have the 6" Jet and it works fine for the square turning stuff I want to joint.

I would really love to have a helical knife head for it though!
 
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If a person is determined you can drive from Minneapolis to my home near Mount McKinely in 3 days and 8 hours. That is how I caught up with my family. They had moved to Alaska before me, so I was anxious to see them.

Thanks for the input on the jointers. I will have to see what the tool budget allows. I am trying to swing a trip to Kentucky. I think that is about half way around the world from here. I still hope to make it, I really enjoyed the Orlando symposium.
 
Steve Worcester said:
I think there was a jointer shootout in the mags in the last year or so. Personally I have the 6" Jet and it works fine for the square turning stuff I want to joint.

I would really love to have a helical knife head for it though!
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Me too the JET. I also have a helical jointer that works great for small stuff. It's my router table with a spiral carbide bit. With a fence-referenced sled and a few hold-downs, it'll do a lot of things, including safely working small pieces of wood.

Face joining is yet another matter.
 
Flat work is just a means to get work big enough to make it round.
I bought the Woodtek 6" jointer and have been happy with it until I moved recently. Apparently I need to realign the table now because is gives me a very slight bow. The move was a little rough. I like the fence on my woodtek and the adjustable outfeed table is nice if you need to realign it like I do now. Guess that will be my Sunday project this week.
for simply true ups of small pieces I just use my handplanes. It's very dangerous to put anything shorter than 6" through a jointer and not less than 12 through a planer. I do a lot of inside -out turning and often have short pieces to deal with. It's just easier and faster using the hand planes in this case.
 
As far as I know most 6" models on the market are relitivly all the same , the two majior differances bieng lever or handwheel adjusted ;and straight knife
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Matt Woodbutcher
 
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