How To Joint WITHOUT a Jointer - Edge Joint 3 EASY Ways!

hello everyone i'm colin connett today i'm going to cover off three ways that you can edge joint wood without a jointer and if you're new to woodworking you're definitely going to want to watch this but even if you're an experienced woodworker there's some techniques here that you may find as a refresher or maybe even something new so let's get started so some of the reasons you might want to be using some of these techniques if you're new to woodworking you're probably purchasing wood that's already planed from your wood supplier but then you're cutting it on maybe a band saw or a table saw and you'll be getting a little bit of a rough edge and maybe you want to glue some boards together but you can't because they're a little bit on the rough side so that's one way of doing it some of the techniques you'll see today if you're an experienced woodworker maybe you're doing some curved edges or something and this is a technique that you would be able to use to do some of that so lots of different reasons that you may want to use something other than a jointer or if you don't have a jointer the first technique i'm going to be using today is using a router and you can use a trim router a little small one like this or you could use a full-size router like this one and i recommend a base a big size router like this because the base is so much bigger you can see how much smaller a trim router is and what we need we need to make sure that we have a large surface area for the router to ride on with a little trim router like this you once you get a bit in there you only have a little area and it's much more susceptible to tipping now the other option with this would be to make yourself a much bigger flatter base and you could do that as well but if you have a big router that will be your best bet let's take a moment to look at the three bits that you could use for this the first one i'm going to talk about is a spiral bit and a spiral bit would be used if you're taking if you need to take off a big chunk of wood um you've got big gouges or big knots and you can't just simply edge the wood then you would use something like this if you if the wood is already cut and you just need to trim a little bit of it off just to get a nice fine edge you could use you'll need a bearing bit in this case it's called the trim bit because the bearing is at the the base of the bit this is called a reproducing or duplicating bit and the bearing you can see how the bearing is further up the shaft these both do the same thing it just depends where you put your straight edge now in every case when you're using a router you're going to need something as a straight edge i prefer mdf because it stays flat all the time plywood is also very good if you have a factory edge or a prepared edge that's absolutely straight the other option that you might have available to you is something like this aluminum straight edge and you can see that it's fairly thick that's another option natural wood can work just fine but you'll need to check it from time to time to make sure that it remains straight and flat so here's one of the pieces of wood that i'm going to tackle today and you can see that it's got this gouge area right in there see how low that is it's nice and straight over here but then it dips down here this is where a spiraling bit would be of use because a spiraling bit is not going to do just an edge it will do just an edge but it will also cut you could actually use it to cut straight through the wood so that you could actually take that right out in a case like this i would set it so that the bit was just below the bottom of that cut and then you would run a straight edge all the way across there and you would get a nice straight cut with that but today what i'm going to do i've already installed one of my trim bits and i'm just going to take a little bit off just to show you what a trim bit can do and we may take a couple of passes so that we get that down it won't get even but we'll just show you what that looks like now i've already taken a moment to set the depth of my bit and it will go that low and where i want that bit to ride is just barely on that mdf down there and i'm only taking a sliver of this wood off and you'll see that so there we go that's a nice perfect edge and this we're going we're going to keep working on this board here in the moment we're going over to the table saw but what we've cut here is just perfect so that's good so as a rule when we're jointing an edge we are basically ripping the wood so we're traveling with the grain so on the table saw i'm going to be using a ripping blade and the blade selection that i like the best is something called a glue line rip it's a freud diablo glue line rip and it gives just an amazingly straight flat edge now this is a full kerf blade so if you have what we call an underpowered saw so basically a saw that plugs into a 110 outlet will have less horsepower you can use this blade on that saw but i don't recommend that you use it all the time because it puts too much stress on the motor what you should be using on your underpowered saws are these thin kerf and you can see the difference this is the thick or the full curve this is the thin kerf and you can see the difference it's almost half or two-thirds the the thickness and a thinner kerf blade like this is a better blade for underpowered saws because it doesn't put so much stress on the motor so i'm going to install this blade and we'll get ready with the first jig i should have mentioned there is also a thin kerf version of this glue line rip i just looked it up because somewhere it seemed that i had seen that and yes there is a thin kerf version of this i don't have one obviously but that might be something that you want to look at so this jig that i'm using here is called a tapering jig on the table saw and these little round things here they're little stoppers so that the wood can't move backwards and they're fastened down and then i have these clamps that are holding the wood down as well now the way this works obviously i've just installed my glue line rip i'm going to set the height of the blade that wants to be right about there now i'm going to readjust the fence and run the wood through now this jig i made in another video i'll have a link to that you'll be able to go and have a look at that and this is another way of doing edge jointing but in this case on the table saw and using this glue line rip and it does a really good job and there's that wood that's abs i wish you could feel that it's absolutely smooth and when we put the straight edge on there look at that it's absolutely perfect now what's interesting i cut a little bit more off you can still see the little nick here but because there's a little hump on this side it's actually straight across there so i have actually got rid of that but we're going to do one more pass with a different jig and you'll see that you can get a cut just like that so the next table saw jig that i'm using is something we used to call a duplicating fence they also call it an l fence and basically it sits on in my case it sits on the fence now i have a wider fence on my table saw and this is metal in here so in this case i can use these mag switches magnetic switches and it locks it down right onto that fence now if you have a different fence you can still use this you just have to come up with a different methodology to attach it to your fence and anything that you can do will work should work just fine now the way this works is the very first thing we do and again i'm still using the glue line rip and the first thing i'm doing is setting the height of the blade so that it's about a half tooth above the material that i want to cut now the next thing i want to do is to set the actual fence and it rides above the table saw blade and you can see that it's just a little above that and i want to get it just inside the fence and you can actually measure that whatever you you want you might be able to use your measuring bars if you want to do that or you can just eyeball it and i'm just going to eyeball it right now i want it just barely inside the fence like that or just inside where the blade is going to be spinning now what i'm going to do with my wood here's the wood that i'm going to trim i'm just going to mark that i want to put a line here and another one on the other side because i want to know where this blade is going to cut now my cover piece consists in this case i'm just using a straight board and i've checked it to make sure it's straight and flat but i'm also going to be using this little piece of anti-skid material this is critical in this situation because this really makes this jig work and what i'm going to do now is i'm going to align my board and you won't be able to see that mark there but well maybe you can see that mark there and the other one at the other end so what i want to do is just be just barely on the inside of those two marks and now what i'm going to do is take this over to my fence and i'm going to take that and run that along and that will give me a perfect cut [Music] now there's the little piece of wood that came out the back of there normally there's nothing that comes out the back because there's nothing in there for the wood to bind up against it's just free free space back there now let's have a quick look at our cut here and of course in this case what's critical is that this is absolutely straight and flat and that the board that you're using here is absolutely straight and flat and all things being equal we should have a perfect cut okay let's check that with our straight edge there we go another perfect straight flat cut well that concludes my video for today three ways of edge jointing wood and if you don't have a straight edge to start off with the factory edge of mdf or plywood there's another option a hand plane and a very good option as well and if you want to learn more about our conversation that i had with daniel on his blog i'll put a link in the description box below and also be on woodwork web i'm colin kanet for woodwork web thanks for watching you

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Length: 13min 44sec (824 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 12 2021