Thickness Planer Jointing Sled...

[Stick486]

This week LeeValley featured a Thickness Planer Jointing Sled... This might be of interest for those w/ planers...
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Thickness Planer Jointing Sled...

[Cherryville Chuck]

That's one good solution and that jig can be hung on a wall out of the way when not in use. Another way for even larger pieces is a router sled but takes much longer to get the job done.

[Herb Stoops]

I have done this both on my planer and drum sander only not with all the fancy points grabbing the ends of the boards,just free floating.
I have a question, this to me is not jointing a board,it is surfacing. To me jointing is on the edge, and can be done similarly by turning boards on their edge,not exceeding the height capacity of the machine and clamping them some way to stabilize them from tipping over when planing, which I have also done if having a bunch of narrow boards I want the same width, by bunching them all together and planing them at one time.
The same goes for the drum sander.
HErb

[Stick486]

I have a question,

which is???

[Herb Stoops]

Why is it called JOINTING?
Herb

[Stick486]

Why is it called JOINTING?
Herb

Get after the editor on that one...

[Cherryville Chuck]

I guess because you'd normally run it over a jointer? You're right, it should have been called flattening a twisted board. I wouldn't bother jointing a twisted board until after I flattened it, so that step comes first. Lately I've started hand planing the high corners off the twist which seems to get me to flat with fewer overall passes and a little less wood wasted. If the twisted board is very long it's hard to keep the corners at the same level through the first pass or two over a jointer if you don't do a little hand planing first.

[smitty10101]

this to me is not jointing a board,it is surfacing.

Thicknessing or surface planning. That's why it's called a "thickness planner"

To me jointing is on the edge

Agreed. Hence a "jointer"


Maybe it's different "up north"?????

@cherryville chuck ????

[Stick486]

boards on edge and run through the planer...
the planer doubles as a joiner...

[HandyDan]

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[Cherryville Chuck]

this to me is not jointing a board,it is surfacing.

Thicknessing or surface planning. That's why it's called a "thickness planner"

To me jointing is on the edge

Agreed. Hence a "jointer"


Maybe it's different "up north"?????

@cherryville chuck ????

No, jointing means the same thing up here Smitty.

I don't call running boards on edge through a planer jointing, I call that sizing. My planer won't make an edge that I could glue to another. I'd still have to clean the edges up a bit to do that but it will size a bunch to the same width. I've run up to 3 rough 2 by 10s through my King at a time. I usually use an F clamp to hold them together and several at a time will stay vertical but one at a time have a tendency to want to tip over during the pass.

[Herb Stoops]

boards on edge and run through the planer...
the planer doubles as a joiner...

I have done that, only the boards are limited on the height capacity of the planer, and the board shown would exceed most planer heights which is 6" max for most non industrial machines.
Also it would be hard to joint a 6" board singularly and without some sort of jig to support it.
Herb

[DaninVan]

I'm guessing but I'll bet the term goes back to the process of squaring up edges for glueing using a long bed hand plane, long before power tools.

[Stick486]

I'm guessing but I'll bet the term goes back to the process of squaring up edges for glueing using a long bed hand plane, long before power tools.

WTB you are correct....

[Cherryville Chuck]

I'm guessing but I'll bet the term goes back to the process of squaring up edges for glueing using a long bed hand plane, long before power tools.

And maybe because the term joinery was a catch all type phrase for the act of building furniture and the person doing the work was called a joiner.