Yesterday, I finished refurbishing an old 6" Craftsman jointer that I inherited from my Dad. It has a 36" cast iron bed and fence and seems to run OK after I built a stand and installed a motor and new blades.
I need some advice on properly using my new old jointer. I have never used one before so any advice will be very helpful. I have many questions such as:
1. What is the proper way to feed wood into the cutters while edge jointing? Where should my hand pressure be as the wood feeds into and out of the cutters?
2. What is the proper way to feed wood into the cutters to plane wood on the wide sides?
3. What is the shortest length of wood that I should try to joint?
4. Do most of you edge joint your wood before or after rough cutting to length?
5. What is the best way, even if the most time consuming way, to adjust planer blades without using the expensive jigs?
Any other advice will be greatly appreciated.
I need some advice on properly using my new old jointer. I have never used one before so any advice will be very helpful. I have many questions such as:
1. What is the proper way to feed wood into the cutters while edge jointing? Where should my hand pressure be as the wood feeds into and out of the cutters?
2. What is the proper way to feed wood into the cutters to plane wood on the wide sides?
3. What is the shortest length of wood that I should try to joint?
4. Do most of you edge joint your wood before or after rough cutting to length?
5. What is the best way, even if the most time consuming way, to adjust planer blades without using the expensive jigs?
Any other advice will be greatly appreciated.