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Pat Barber[_2_] Pat Barber[_2_] is offline
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Default sizing home jointers and planers?

Yes...that was a nice little jointer 50 years ago.

Over at owwm.org, I see many restorations of those
jointers.

That is 37-290 Deluxe I believe.

http://lumberjocks.com/reviews/95

A nicely built little 4" jointer. Dad had one; brother has it now. As
noted, the disadvantage of the smaller ones is the shorter bed lengths;
"bigger is better" is certainly true w/ jointers, especially.

The only thing I disliked w/ the Delta 4" is that doing the cabinets for
folks used some hard maple for the facings and the lightness of the
cutterhead made it chatter more than one would like if tried to face a
2"+ piece; just not enough mass. It did fine on jointing glue edges even
on the maple.

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