I’m a beginning woodworker looking for help with a problem I am having with my jointer. I bought it new and used it on quite a bit of wood to build my first project. I am now cleaning up rough lumber for my next project. Every time I run a board over the jointer I the wood ends up with a convex curve in it. exxagerated it would look like a “u” facing down. I am keeping all of my pressure on the outfeed table and doing everything I have read about to try to make this work. I also had no problems on the wood I suared up on my first project. Any help or advice solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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Chinook, This probably has to do with the out feed table setting. I believe the out feed table may be a few thousands of an inch lower than the tip of the cutter. You can check this by putting a straight edge on the out feed table and rotate the cutter head by hand and the blades should just touch the straight edge. Depending upon the jointer you have you can adjust the blade height or adjust the out feed table.
Thanks Mel, I also thought this was the problem. I am going to try to fix it this weekend. I appreciate the advice. There are no woodworkers in my area and it makes problems alot harder to solve when you don't have anybody to bounce ideas off of.
thanks again
Chinook
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