Woodworking For Beginners | How to Master the Jointer

In this video Rob Cosman shows you how to set - up and properly use the jointer.
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[dondale]

I do like Rob's style of teaching, he shows us what he's talking about and he uses plain simple English which most of us use every day, he does not try to talk down to us!!

[scottcass]

What you just shared with us is exactly what my High School woodshop teacher showed me some 50 years ago. Some things don't need to change.

[robb]

Very helpful Rob, thank you! I've inherited my dads jointer but knowing he lost the ends of three fingers in it has made me have a healthy respect for it and a wish to learn how to use it properly and safely! Cutting corners costs more than just cutting wood!!

[tielkgate]

Nice job Rob..Thanks for emphasizing the safety aspect. My dad was injured just after I was born in the planer mill where he worked on a jointer. I watched him suffer always due to that injury.

[hrlembarnett]

Nice video Rob. Best one on the internet! Very helpful.

[leehaelters]

Groovy basic lesson Rob. Sets us up for an advanced class, one I haven't seen from any of the usual sources. You could go into finer detail about ways to get a spring joint, the relationship of the outfeed table to the cutting circle, how little tiny nicks leave whiskers that affect that relationship, honing in between knife changes, and even changing knives. You are the boss wid da hot sauce, and the very man for the job!

[cliftonmcreynolds]

Great clip. Bought a jointer two weeks ago and you answered a lot of my questions.

[rschellie]

I have a lot of respect for the jointer. I ground down my pinky finger on my left hand past the second knuckle in high school shop class.

[raydriver]

Even more pearls of wisdom. As always, thank you for sharing 🌞

[rogerdudra]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Good information on my planer/jointer. Mine has always been set at 90 degrees, too.

[souhailrider]

very nice work im a carpenter Iam from Morocco thank you for video my friend 👍😊👷

[arthurjackson]

Good video and very timely for me, I just got a new jointer at an estate sale. The first thing I do is assume the previous owner was an idiot. I downloaded the manual and re-setup my jointer. The big issue was the motor was coming lose from its mount and was supported by the belt and one bolt. With a new belt and new bolts and washers it works great. I also never cut an angle different than 90. I’ve been bitten by my table saw, but nothing scares me more than those spinning jointer teeth.

[paulkramer]

Hmm, totally agree. I have so often argued with even advanced woodworkers that the pressure on the stock should change from the in feed to the out feed. Agreed about the width too. I have a 4" an 8" and a 12". On the 12, I have a pretty hefty power puller. Makes a very nice straight board with no "stop and start" marks. One tip I might add is for longer boards that are warped. You say to do the concave side rather than the convex side. I agree totally, however I'd add that for longer boards, that have significant warp, with the board being longer than the in feed table especially, then I start from one end, then switch to the other end on the next pass. I do that a couple time, until I can finally make one complete pass that joints the board across the whole length, The reason is obvious to you, but, just to be clear, it leaves a bit more board than if I did it with the same end forward each time.

[paulowens]

Great advice. 1 thing I've found however, is that once the piece is longer then the jointer in-feed table, your advice is on doing the edge is reversed. You want to flip the board so that the curve is up like a smile. Establish a flat spot in the middle and then work that to the ends. If you have it the other way the board will ride against the in-feed table and start to raise it up off the out-feed. If you keep doing this, by the time you do finally get it flat.... it'll make a board that's got an aggressive taper to it from end to end. Even if the grain still looked ok, i've found that by the time you put it through the table saw, you've used up too much and don't get the max board width you could have.

[peterole]

Hi Rob, great video!

Is there a reason why your outside most cutter on the "helical" head is positioned perpendicular to the fence and not at an angle like the rest of them? The "seat" for that cutter seems to be angled just like the rest of them but somehow the cutter is straight.

[briangustin]

Hmm I'd hoped to see you cover tips for longer boards that are longer than your jointer's infeed table - hard to joint them square and straight when the board hangs over at one end.

[andygorski]

Did that board have leading snip? @6:49 looks to be a line on the board 3ish inches in from the front.

[michaelthompson]

Due to space constraints I only have a 6 inch jointer, though with most furniture sized pieces that works just fine. But for wider pieces, do you recommend a planer sled and wedges to flatten one face or just a hand plane?

[andrewbrimmer]

Sir i don't know much about holidays in Canada, but if you do celebrate Thanksgiving i hope you and you family have a great day

[J.A.Smith]

I got one I bought from my boss n played with it once or twice but still have yet to break it down, clean it up, n set it up nice n square n really get to dimension precisely