Why a joiner?

[silverfox]

Nice drawing, boblon....very comprehensive. A lot of good answers here on this thread from Loring & others.
Mike

[BrazosJake]

Just to validate, that's not a dumb question at all. Woodworking semantics are confusing as all ****. What normal person would know that to "joint" a piece of wood means to flatten 2 sides? However, before "joining" one or more pieces of wood, we typically "joint" (flatten) them first, but then proceed to cut "joints" of some sort (e.g. dovetails or mortise & tennon). Now, to really confuse you, there is also a hand plane called a "jointer". Does the same thing as the power tool Loring described, just by hand.

Now, since you've been working with sheet goods and dimensional lumber, just wait till you call up a lumberyard to inquire about hardwood and they start peppering you with questions like "You want that in 4/4 or 6/4? S2S or rough with SLR? FAS or #1 Common? Quarter, Rift, or Plain Sawn?" I got interested in this stuff about 2 years ago and still learn something new everyday.

[Luckbox]

If a jointer's bed is only 6 inches wide, what do you do with lumber greater than 6 inches? So if I have an 8 inch board would you cut it into 2 4 inch boards, joint and then glue back together?

[lcm1947]

Yeah Brazosjake it looks like I'll be learning a lot about this hobby - but darn ain't it neat!!!

[Tequila]

quote:Originally posted by Luckbox

If a jointer's bed is only 6 inches wide, what do you do with lumber greater than 6 inches? So if I have an 8 inch board would you cut it into 2 4 inch boards, joint and then glue back together?

You sneak an 8" jointer into the house and hope LOYL doesn't find out.
[B)]

[onedash]

I never check the width of my boards and if they are over 6" wide which they often are I hope for the best. Cant see cutting perfectly good wood in half to glue back together. Usually just for the table tops everything else is usually small enough so far.
You gotta get the Fine Woodworking Power tools Techniques issue in stores now. It has an article "the jointer and planer are a team" Tells you everything (I think) My problem was the outfeed table was a hair to low on mine so I was screwing them up and getting all kinds of crazy results and I thought I could do both sides but that don't work either. So finally got a planer. Now that I got a shop full of tools its hard to convince her to let me buy wood. But the more projects you build the more the price of the tools is offset.
Next tool on the list is a big old Bandsaw I think. Gotta practice with my new dovetail jig to but my next project will be a Walnut Mirror.

[onedash]

oh yeah. in case you don't get the magazine...don't do the whole board at once unless you need a piece that long. Its a waste of wood. only do the length you need. If its cupped or warped along the entire length and you cut it to the length you need it most likely will be better so less to remove to square it all up.
And always put the cupped side down so it rests on two points.
Get the magazine though. Lots of other good stuff in there too.

Semper Fi

[BrazosJake]

quote:Originally posted by Tequila

quote:Originally posted by Luckbox

If a jointer's bed is only 6 inches wide, what do you do with lumber greater than 6 inches? So if I have an 8 inch board would you cut it into 2 4 inch boards, joint and then glue back together?

You sneak an 8" jointer into the house and hope LOYL doesn't find out.
[B)]

Or you go with a 16" and tell her it's a prototype aircraft carrier you're secretly testing for the Navy.