{"id":3047,"date":"2014-07-13T02:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T07:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2014-07-13T02:11:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T07:11:33","slug":"jointer-planer-combination-machines-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/13\/jointer-planer-combination-machines-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jointer-planer combination machines, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2592_edited-2.jpg\" alt=\"hand jointing\" width=\"510\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2592_edited-2.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2592_edited-2-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/jointer-planer-combination-machines-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">In the previous post in this series<\/a>, I recounted my stock preparation history culminating with the <strong>Hammer A3-31<\/strong>. Prior to discussing the ins and outs of the Hammer machine, let&#8217;s look at <strong>the rationale for a combination jointer-planer in the small shop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing most of us share the following <strong>woodworking profile.<\/strong> We have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A strong <strong>desire to build<\/strong> things from wood that exceeds the desire to dawdle with woodworking tools.<\/li>\n<li>Less <strong>time<\/strong> than we want for making things.<\/li>\n<li>Less shop <strong>space<\/strong> than we&#8217;d like.<\/li>\n<li>Less <strong>money<\/strong> than we want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get a pile of wood transformed into a finished project, the stuff needs to be taken to the desired thicknesses, with flat parallel surfaces and a straight, square edge before being ripped to width and crosscut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some options:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Handwork\/hybrid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doing it all by hand is just too slow and tedious for most of us, but a <strong>hybrid approach<\/strong> employing a portable thickness planer is very practical. One face is made <strong>flat but very rough<\/strong> using scrub and jack planes, just enough so it <strong>does not rock or distort<\/strong> on the planer bed, and there is <strong>no bow<\/strong> (lengthwise curve on the face). The planer flattens the opposite face, the board is then flipped and the planer makes the first face flat and parallel. Then hand plane a straight edge.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget too that a well-tuned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/bandsaw-hand-tool-with-a-motor\/\" target=\"_blank\">bandsaw<\/a> with adequate blade height can do a pretty good job as a <strong>jointer <em>and<\/em> thicknesser<\/strong>\u00a0followed by clean up with hand planes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Exceptions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It does pay to <strong>be able to<\/strong> fully prepare a board entirely by hand just as a baseball player must be able to bunt &#8211; it isn&#8217;t used often but a complete player artfully brings up the skill when needed.<\/p>\n<p>Some boards are <strong>too short<\/strong> to safely feed to a thickness planer and hand work is a must.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there is <strong>an occasional board<\/strong> in which I want to preserve every hair&#8217;s breadth of thickness, and conservatively flattening one face by hand is a less risky method.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>very wide slabs<\/strong>, elaborate router jigs can be set up but finding a local commercial shop with a megabeast thickness sander makes more sense to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Separate jointer and planer machines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>big problem here<\/strong> is that jointers with <strong>widths<\/strong> that approach even inexpensive portable thickness planers are big and expensive. To me, it <strong>makes little sense<\/strong> in terms of expense, space, and work efficiency for most small shop furniture makers to have a $2000, 600-pound, 8&#8243; jointer with a 7 foot bed paired with a 13&#8243; thickness planer. Or how about 5 or 6 thou for a 900 pound 12&#8243; jointer?<\/p>\n<p>One interesting <strong>exception<\/strong> to this mismatch situation is Grizzly&#8217;s G0706 12&#8243; jointer that has a 60&#8243; bed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Combination jointer-planer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a<strong> single machine<\/strong> with a fairly <strong>small footprint<\/strong>, you get an excellent <strong>12&#8243; of planing <em>and<\/em> matching jointing capacity.<\/strong> This opens up a world of <strong>managing wide boards<\/strong> with ease. This is <strong>value.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a<strong> range of prices<\/strong> starting at about $1800 up to twice that, among options that include Rikon, Grizzly, Jet, Rojek, Minimax and Hammer. Pair one of these bad boys with a steel frame <strong>bandsaw with a matching 12&#8243; capacity<\/strong> and life is very good.<\/p>\n<p>Lower budget <strong>10&#8243; models<\/strong> are available, including Rikon, Jet, and Grizzly. I will say that I really appreciate the extra two inches and extra beefiness of my current Hammer over the 10&#8243; Inca I had. Hey, how about <strong>16&#8243;?<\/strong> Sure, if you&#8217;ve got the space and money, but for most of us it&#8217;s not necessary for most furniture making.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the next post in this series,<\/strong> I&#8217;ll go into some detail about my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammerusa.com\/us-us\/products\/jointer\u2013planers\/jointer-planer-a3-31--310-mm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hammer A3-31<\/a>. Previewing, here are two non-issues: bed length and change over between functions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2590_edited-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hammer A#-31\" width=\"510\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2590_edited-2.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2590_edited-2-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post in this series, I recounted my stock preparation history culminating with the Hammer A3-31. Prior to discussing the ins and outs of the Hammer machine, let&#8217;s look at the rationale for a combination jointer-planer in the small shop. I&#8217;m guessing most of us share the following woodworking profile. 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