Alan Lilly
05-11-2010, 9:55 AM
I finally bought a quality Lee Valley 38" straight edge to help with my jointer problem.
I was unable to solve my jointer problem setup until I got the straight edge and a good feeler gauge.
FYI: I discovered after making my jointer beds parallel.. that I needed to micro-lower my outfeed bed (effectively raising my knives slightly relative to the outfeed bed) about a few hundreds or thousands. Until I did this ... I was always getting convex boards out of my jointer and I thought it was caused by my beds not being parallel.
Memory mnemonic: Concave is when the center is "caved" inward and Convex is the other.
The morale of my story... I needed an accurate straight edge to help debug a bad jointer setup!
I was unable to solve my jointer problem setup until I got the straight edge and a good feeler gauge.
FYI: I discovered after making my jointer beds parallel.. that I needed to micro-lower my outfeed bed (effectively raising my knives slightly relative to the outfeed bed) about a few hundreds or thousands. Until I did this ... I was always getting convex boards out of my jointer and I thought it was caused by my beds not being parallel.
Memory mnemonic: Concave is when the center is "caved" inward and Convex is the other.
The morale of my story... I needed an accurate straight edge to help debug a bad jointer setup!