J.R. Rutter
08-09-2005, 10:27 AM
It has been a while since I've posted regularly on the Creek, and just finished reading up on the Shelix discussions. I have a 20" head in my planer that I really like, though it trips the heaters in my starter more than fresh steel knives when hogging off tough woods. It is VERY nice to just push jobs through at full speed without paying attention to grain.
I've been considering a Shelix or Tersa head for my 12" jointer, and am wondering about edges destined for glue joints. Although I do skew my surfacing cuts, sometimes tearout happens at the most inconvenient time. I also run a lot of Braz. Cherry, which is super hard and dulls blades fast. The head on my planer leaves very shallow surface scallops the length of the board surface. On the jointer, might this translate into edges that are either at a slight angle or make for a thicker (visible) glue line?
Has this been an issue at all for those of you with jointer heads, or is it such a tiny imperfection that it amounts to nothing?
I've been considering a Shelix or Tersa head for my 12" jointer, and am wondering about edges destined for glue joints. Although I do skew my surfacing cuts, sometimes tearout happens at the most inconvenient time. I also run a lot of Braz. Cherry, which is super hard and dulls blades fast. The head on my planer leaves very shallow surface scallops the length of the board surface. On the jointer, might this translate into edges that are either at a slight angle or make for a thicker (visible) glue line?
Has this been an issue at all for those of you with jointer heads, or is it such a tiny imperfection that it amounts to nothing?