Grant Stevens
04-01-2007, 2:55 PM
Question for the masses....
First, the background. After following all of the threads recently about cutterheads for jointers and planers, I decided to stick with the stock cutterhead for awhile until I decide what to do. With regard to the equipment that I am using, I recently picked up a used 8" Jet jointer and 15" Jet planer (had a 6" jointer and [still have] a DW735).
Ok, now for the question... I seem to get a lot of chipout in cherry that I run through the jointer. In order to verify that I found the prevailing grain direction correctly, I flipped a couple of boards around, and it was much worse. So back to the original feed direction and I get some chipout. But when I run the same boards through the planer, I don't seem to get much of any chipout. So is it poor technique on the jointer that is causing this (e.g., feed speed, etc)? I would have guessed that if there were grain patterns running in multiple directions that I would see it on the planer too.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Grant Stevens
First, the background. After following all of the threads recently about cutterheads for jointers and planers, I decided to stick with the stock cutterhead for awhile until I decide what to do. With regard to the equipment that I am using, I recently picked up a used 8" Jet jointer and 15" Jet planer (had a 6" jointer and [still have] a DW735).
Ok, now for the question... I seem to get a lot of chipout in cherry that I run through the jointer. In order to verify that I found the prevailing grain direction correctly, I flipped a couple of boards around, and it was much worse. So back to the original feed direction and I get some chipout. But when I run the same boards through the planer, I don't seem to get much of any chipout. So is it poor technique on the jointer that is causing this (e.g., feed speed, etc)? I would have guessed that if there were grain patterns running in multiple directions that I would see it on the planer too.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Grant Stevens