Setting Up and Using Jointers and Planers + DVD
George Vondriska- In-depth Instruction; over 97 mins
- On-demand video access anytime
- Bonus downloadable PDF resources
- Access to class Q&A
- Available for purchase: $19.99
You’ll get the best possible cuts on your jointer by feeding your material in the right direction, based on grain direction. In this session, you’ll learn to read the grain. We’ll also cover proper safety and techniques that should be used for:
- wide pieces
- narrow pieces
- face jointing
- cutting rabbets
- jointing tapers
Now that your planing is cutting cleanly and precisely, let’s look at specific planer techniques. In this final session, you’ll learn how to:
- Establish the proper depth for a first planer pass
- Eliminate snipe
- Use the planer for edge jointing narrow pieces
- Plane extremely thin stock
Jointers and planers are similar, but not identical. Each machine has a different function, but both machines are extremely useful when it comes to creating precisely machined boards in your shop.
Additionally, buying your lumber rough sawn and doing you own jointing and planing can save you a lot of money!
In broad strokes, jointers are the perfect tool for flattening faces and creating edges that are smooth, straight and square. Planers provide two parallel faces, and guarantee that every board you machine is exactly the same thickness.
This class will help you double check your machines to make sure they’re correctly set up. This includes knife changes on both the jointer and planer, with techniques provided for perfectly setting the jointer knives. You’ll learn how to lubricate and maintain your jointer and planer for optimum performance. You’ll also learn:
- How to read wood grain for proper feed direction to avoid tear out
- Tricks for getting the jointer fence perfectly square
- Low tech tips for setting jointer knives
- Jointer and planer safety
- What materials can and can’t be jointed and planed
- How to eliminate jointer snipe
- Safe and proper techniques for face jointing
- Using the jointer to cut rabbets
- Jointing tapers
- Levelling planer infeed and outfeed tables
- How to reduce or eliminate planer snipe
- Planing extremely thin stock
- Using your planer to clean up sawn edges
This class will help make sure you get the most out of your jointer and planer by helping you properly set the machines, and safely use them to their full potential.
NOTE: You’ll receive this Class video instruction in two forms: As on-demand streaming video (in your WWGOA Account); and as a physical DVD, mailed to you.
George Vondriska
George Vondriska is the Editor in Chief here at Woodworkers Guild of America and has been sharing his woodworking expertise since 1986. Apart from conducting classes at his renowned Vondriska Woodworks School, George's passion for teaching has taken him to woodworking shows nationwide and has led him to teach woodworking for prestigious organizations such as Peace Corps/Swaziland, Andersen Window, Northwest Airlines, and the Pentagon. With a wealth of published magazine articles under his belt, encompassing tool reviews and shop improvement projects, George's knowledge and skills continue to inspire woodworkers every day. To discover more about him and his school, visit georgevondriska.com.
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Setting Up and Using Jointers and Planers + DVD
with George Vondriska