Woodworking Jointer Sled

Well this sled will allow you to create one straight edge on any board to reference from to make the rest of the lumber you re working with square.

Woodworking jointer sled. Arlington texas woodworker keith rust has developed an alternative method for surfacing lumber that makes use of his wide bench planer and a shopmade jig. Flattening wide lumber on a 6 in. Wide and i often have to joint wider boards than that. With the sled or rails holding the wood in a fixed orientation the planer instead acts like a wide jointer cutting a flat face.

I slip wedges under the edges to even out the high spots which maximizes my yield. Before starting identify any wood distortion with winding sticks. Your grandad may have reached for a hand plane to flatten boards without a power jointer but today there s an easier way. Like most woodworking tools and machinery equipment needs to be checked and reset if it is not aligned properly from time to time.

This does allow the thickness to vary but after one face is flat you can flip the wood over use that flat face as a stable reference and plane the other face both flat and parallel. Remember that man made materials like plywood can be hard on steel jointer knives but not on carbide table saw blades. Having a jointer does not automatically mean it is set up correctly. Regular maintenance is a part of woodworking and is important for the quality of your builds and for your own safety.

Let s get cutting melamine works great for the fence but. With a few common power tools you can use any of these five easy methods for flat boards in no time. Two of the methods i still use from time to time are using the table saw with a special sled and using my wood router. In this video rust demonstrates flattening one side of a wide board with the his planer sled.

Brought to you by skillshare. How to edge joint and face joint boards without a jointer using a simple sled. With the addition of a simple shop made fence you can easily edge joint on your table saw. You ll also need a 60 inch long strip of stock ripped to dimensions of about 3 4 x 3 8 inch but you can use pretty much any straight piece of scrap stock for this piece.

Even if you own a jointer you ll want to master this technique. Jointing wood edges are probably one of the most common tasks we do in woodworking and one of the reasons that jointers are such a common tool but there are other ways fo jointing wood. Jointer can be difficult. 2 month free trial for first 500 people.

A pair of short straight lengths of wood or metal as. To flatten those boards with my big planer i use a planer sled with a long clamp on saw guide embedded into it to hold the board.