Been following the thread with only mild interest. I was really curious to
see how anyone ANYONE, as some poster had indicated could happen, could
accidentally feed stock the wrong way through a jointer. So far I haven't
seen the answer to that.

However, as to how one can hurt oneself taking only one 1/64" cut. While the
blades only extend an RCH above the outfeed table there is still relatively
a large opening between the infeed and outfeed table that will, should an
errant digit enter it, allow you to get quite a manicure.

Say a thin or short board being fed on the trailing edge with the bare hand
and too much pressure dipping into that gap.

--
Mike G.
Heirloom Woods
www.heirloom-woods.net
"Tom Kohlman" wrote in message
et...
...just a simple question. If the machine is capable of 1/64ths of an
inch
cut and common wisdom is not to exceed 1/8" at a time on a 6" machine, how
can you ever get hurt unless the piece is too thin or narrow or short to
begin with?

Only time I ever draw blood on the thing is in setting them up (twice
now!!!...cleaning the factory grease off before even plugging the damn
things in).

"Phisherman" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:49:06 GMT, "Mark Jerde"
wrote:

I flexed my credit card & bought a 6" jointer, 14" bandsaw, 16.5" drill
press, 650 CFM dust collector & 12.5" planer from a guy getting out of
woodworking. (All Jet except the Delta planer.) IMO the "Jet blue"
clashes
violently with the "Grizzly green" of my table saw & sander but I
suppose
I'll get used to it. ;-)

I've made a few test cuts with the jointer & it scares me. IDAGS on
"jointer safety" but so far all the hits are pretty generic. "Don't
cut
too
deep, no nails or loose knots, no hands over the cutter unless you're
using
push blocks, ..." Are there some good sites for learning to use the
jointer
and still be able to do10-finger typing for the rest of my life?

Thanks.

-- Mark


Just be aware of what you are doing. No leaning. No distractions.
No slippery floors. No drugs. Both feet on clean floor. Keep the
safety guard in place. Keep push blocks conveniently nearby. Don't
rush. It's not a particularly dangerous machine (it doesn't kick
back like a table saw can), but the knives are very sharp with the
machine on or off. When it comes time to change the knives, do so
carefully.