A handmade home for woodworkers and admirers of woodworkers. Our community icon is a planter box made by @Captain Aggravated, the winner of our summer '24 woodworking contest. Congratulations!
I know it’s only a 6” but that’s all I need right now, couldn’t justify the extra expense for the 8” at the moment.
Sorry to have to tell you this but that's the worst jointer ever made. Don't even bother unboxing it. Just send me your address and I will gladly dispose of it for you. 😁
Jokes aside, I would love to have one of those.
You had me in the first half
No real tips to add but I have a bench top jointer and LOVE it. Sure a larger one would be nice but it does the job.
Just got the cheap spiral cut 6" from wen. I've only a run a few boards over it, but I like it. I was an idiot a few years back and gave up my cast-iron Harbor freight 6" model "just" because the shitty motor burned out. Today, I'd have been less stupid and picked up a new motor. I got Porter-Cable that's clearly from the same factory where they're making all the benchtop models these days, and it was fine until I had to replace the knives. It was tedious, finicky, and I never did quite get it right. I freakin' HATED setting those blades.
I sold that (with full disclosure that it was aligned poorly), and then my used Shopsmith came with their little 4" cast-iron job. It was also annoying, but either I was better or the design was better, so I had it set up reasonably well. It cut pretty flat, but I blew up some retaining bolts and threads on the cutter head when some bad technique on a short workpiece saw it get wedged in there. No injuries thankfully, but I figured that since it was changing blades that I hated so much, I'd try one without straight knives, and I think I'm back in love with processing lumber, at least until my planer knives are too dull to use, LOL.