Michael MacDonald
01-06-2011, 12:15 AM
I was getting pretty frustrated the last two days with my jointer. trying to do a glue up of some 5/4 cherry, and kept jointing rocking chair feet out of the edges... I had ordered the muti-gauge from oneway manufacturing a while ago, but it was delayed for the holidays... it arrived just in time to keep me from smoking my jointer. (he he).
pretty nice tool. I found that two blades were pretty consistent--parallel and same height, but one blade was a bit high. That helped get rid of the choppiness I was seeing in my results... just using a 12" rule was not getting the job done. Then after a few more false starts, I decided to take the blades down to exact same height as the outfeed table (I was 1/1000 over). actually, I just moved the table.
I had heard that the blades should be just above the outfeed height, but making them equal seemed to be the fix for my problem. nice clean kiss between boards for my glue up now.
anyone else like this tool? or build a shop-made version for measuring jointer blade height? What I really like is that I can slide it across the table to see how the blade height changes from side to side. better feedback than listening for the blade to scratch a ruler as it hits top of the arc.
pretty nice tool. I found that two blades were pretty consistent--parallel and same height, but one blade was a bit high. That helped get rid of the choppiness I was seeing in my results... just using a 12" rule was not getting the job done. Then after a few more false starts, I decided to take the blades down to exact same height as the outfeed table (I was 1/1000 over). actually, I just moved the table.
I had heard that the blades should be just above the outfeed height, but making them equal seemed to be the fix for my problem. nice clean kiss between boards for my glue up now.
anyone else like this tool? or build a shop-made version for measuring jointer blade height? What I really like is that I can slide it across the table to see how the blade height changes from side to side. better feedback than listening for the blade to scratch a ruler as it hits top of the arc.