How to Use a Jointer 5 Ways | What is a Jointer | Woodworking

hey guys my name is will Walker and today I want to show you five ways you can use a jointer okay so let's talk about jointers and what they do in the bits and bobs around them this is my new Grizzly g65 6x spiral cutter head jointer it is 1/8 inch wide jointer by 6 feet long essentially it's just two dead flat surfaces with a cutter head in the middle and a fence for a reference the outfeed table is set exactly aligned with the apex of the cutter head while the infeed table can be raised or lowered to increase or decrease the amount of cut wood each pass the fence can be tilted 45 degrees in a hyzer direction but I generally keep it at 90 degrees to give me a square reference to the table this jointer has a spiral cutter head versus a straight knife the benefit of that is you have multiple carbide cutting inserts in a spiral pattern which helps with tear out on difficult woods also you can pull these out when they get dull or nicked and rotate them 90 degrees and reinstall them to expose a new cutting face versus having to take the knives out sharpen them or get them sharpened and then reinstall them and realign them to the outfeed table it's not a huge deal to replace straight knives but this is just way more convenient and way nicer for figured woods everything I'm gonna do on a jointer can be done on a 6-inch joint or a bench top jointer with straight knives as well ok so now that we know what a jointer is let's learn how to use it number one face jointing as lumber dries it has a tendency to twist and Cup the first step in the milling process is to get one face of a board flat pass the board over the cutter head keeping the pressure on the outfeed side so you don't transfer the twist I usually take about 1/32 of an inch per pass after you have one flat side you can pass it through your thickness planer to make the opposite side parallel to edge jointing most lumber will have some degree of a crown where the board isn't perfectly straight so you wanted to make a tabletop or a cutting board and needed to meet multiple boards together a common way to deal with crown is to edge doing the boards pass them over the jointer at the crown up and the flat face against the fence then at the table saw a place your newly jointed edge against the fence and rip the board straight number three chamfer so you need to make a quick chamfer on some stock for trim or for any reason really tilt defense to 45 degrees and reference the fence as he passed the board over the cutter just be sure to pay attention to grain direction so you don't get tear out number 4 taper this trick is pretty slick but you do need to remove the guard so proceed with caution mark the halfway point of the overall taper and Mark all four sides at the jointer lower the infeed table to half the amount you want the piece to taper then rotate the cutter head with the stock as a reference to see where the cut will start mark that location on your fence then slowly feed the piece from the bottom of the leg of the jointer until the lines you marked match the mark on your fence stop the cut there I'm making a half inch taper on all four sides so my cut depth is a quarter inch deep then rotate the piece end for end and use a good push block to put pressure down on the end you just cut to pivot the top of the work piece up making a second pass over the jointer giving you the final taper making tapers like this can feel a little foreign but the results are pretty phenomenal and number five ravening now I know I said you could do all the things I could do on any jointer but this feature might be limited to most floor-standing jointers that have a rabbit ledge move the guard out of the way and slide the fence over to expose how much of a rabbit you want to make three-eighths of an inch is a pretty common rabbit size for making picture frames out of 3/4 material I like making my rabbits in three passes taking an eighth of an inch with each pass and there you go five different ways to utilize a jointer if you have any other uses for a jointer be sure to let me know in the comment section I'd love to hear them if you found this educating or entertaining consider subscribing and maybe share this with a friend thanks for watching

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Length: 4min 0sec (240 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 18 2018