Greg Parrish
12-11-2017, 7:55 AM
So I recently installed a shelix head in my powermatic 54a jointer and I think I'm seeing a tapered cut that I don't remember with the straight blades. I could be wrong and it could have been there with the straight beads too but I can't remember.
With the straight blades I only worked with stock narrow enough to do an edge plane and a face plane which then produced a square corner to plane/cut the other two edges from. Last night I was trying to edge plane 2 pieces of walnut slab. The idea being joining them together into one table surface for a coffee table.
Since I can't run the face edges through my jointer (they are up to 13" wide and live edged), how do I get less taper? From reading I'm finding comments that the taper is normal so if that isn't the case then I need to try to shim something to improve alignment.
Any thoughts before I get started checking all of the alignment points and possible shim points? thanks.
With the straight blades I only worked with stock narrow enough to do an edge plane and a face plane which then produced a square corner to plane/cut the other two edges from. Last night I was trying to edge plane 2 pieces of walnut slab. The idea being joining them together into one table surface for a coffee table.
Since I can't run the face edges through my jointer (they are up to 13" wide and live edged), how do I get less taper? From reading I'm finding comments that the taper is normal so if that isn't the case then I need to try to shim something to improve alignment.
Any thoughts before I get started checking all of the alignment points and possible shim points? thanks.