On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:59:56 GMT, "noonenparticular"
wrote:

Big in the sense of the boards (timbers?) involved.

I'm trying to edge join the two boards for my bench top. Each board is 80"
x 3 1/2" x 7". They're big and I need to join the 3 1/2" edges.

Something like this might work?
http://www.grizzly.com/products/G9968

I don't have one. If I want to do work like that one time only, I
take it to someone who already has the tools, and there are two
sources around here. Look around and you'll find some one in the wood
retail business reasonably close.