{"id":2425,"date":"2008-12-30T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2008-12-30T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:54:42","slug":"who-needs-a-jointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs a Jointer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheap = Good<\/em><\/p>\n

I love Taunton.com. I pay a piddling sum every year, and they let me root through their PDF articles. They also have videos.<\/p>\n

Today I found a great article. A woodworker named Gary Rust (good thing he’s not a welder) invented a sled you can use to run warped boards through a planer.<\/a> It will give you one flat, milled side. Then you flip the wood over and plane the other side without the sled.<\/p>\n

This is fantastic. Not only can you avoid buying a jointer; you can use a $350 planer to plane boards nearly a foot wide. Yes, I said “plane.” Let’s be serious; that’s what a jointer does.<\/p>\n

Grizzly’s cheapest 8″ jointer costs $700 plus shipping, and it’s merely a Grizzly, and it’s gigantic. This guy’s sled will do bigger boards, and it costs $20.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I want to know. Why isn’t somebody patenting and selling this? Too late now; he put it in a magazine article. But he could have made some money. I would have been thrilled to pay between fifty and a hundred bucks for a simple, compact tool that would let me avoid buying a jointer.<\/p>\n

If this thing works, it means you can plane and thickness your wood on your planer, square up the edges with your table saw or even a circular saw and track system, and avoid the jointer altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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