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[fredbelknap]

Tim is there any advantage to having two jointers or is one just a backup. That planer looks like it has plenty of power.

[TDHofstetter]

Hee... caught being a tool hoarder.

The li'l blue one, a Reliant 6", was my first jointer - bought from WoodWorker's Warehouse for a stupidly low sum of money (about $300, if I recall correctly). It turned out to be a very good li'l machine, and served me well for years.

The bigger one, a Grizzly 8", came to me secondhand for about the same number of dollars. My neighbor across the road had bought it some 25 years earlier, used it for one project, then left it standing in his toolshed all that time. Would you believe... the knives I've been using this last couple of days still have the FACTORY GRIND on 'em. Never needed sharpening yet.

So anyway... I keep telling myself I'll hang onto 'em both, use the 6" for edge jointing & the 8" for facing. Seems to make sense to do that in a funny sorta' way, but the reality of it is that I just don't think I'm quite ready to part with the ol' Reliant quite yet. Should, just to free up some space... and at the same time send two of the table saws down the road, too. Come to think of it, I've even got a VAN to sell...

I s'pose I could always say the Reliant stands as backup for the Griz... but then I'd be enabling this greedy behavior of mine. Mebbe I'll wait to sell the jointer till this kitchen is finished, and the bathrooms. I don't want anything to stand in the way of gettin' them cabs built.

Crap, I dunno. I seriously doubt I'll throw a bearing in the Griz this year, and I've got motors all over the place I can swap out of the motor loses all its smoke. I think I'm just trying to talk myself into keeping it, thassall...

Watch. Tomorrow somebody nearby will lemme know that they really need a jointer. That happens, this'n's down the road.

EDIT: The planer gets its power from a "5HP" (not credible) compressor motor. I only use one drive belt, though, although the pulleys are triples. One of these days I'll bump that planer motor down to a more realistic 2HP so it doesn't drink so much electricijuice.

[art3427]

Reminds me of a childhood memory. My dad operated a cabinet shop by the house. No DC system. He would run up a huge pile of shavings behind the planer and then assign my brother and I to haul it out back to burn.

I do the same thing now except I compost the shavings for use in the garden and flower beds.

art

[larryh86gt]

Holy cow Tim, I get a little 2" pile from my planer and think it's a mess. That's some serious shavings.

Larry

[Leo Voisine]

Working on the kitchen cabinets?

Ohhh - you just gotta show progress on that project.

Planing sure do make a lot of chips - fluffy ones. My DC gets filled up real fast with that stuff.