Gramp's shop wrote:
I need to trim a slight bevel into the face of a 6/4x4x12 hunk of hard maple. I'm using the board for a face for the tail vise of the new bench. As it turns out, the movable jaw is a tad askew resulting in a nearly 1/4 inch gap at the top when fully closed.

My thought is to glue a 1/4x1/4 inch strip across the length of the piece along the edge of the face and then run this through the jointer until the strip disappears. Would you consider this a safe operation?

Larry

As always, use a hold down block, otherwise it seems safe. Do a dry
run with another piece of wood to test the theory. Sounds to me like
the strip would disappear faster than the other edge, but I have never
tried it. It works on a planer with the strip side down, and I have
used that--but it sounds like the board is too short to safely run
through a planer.

--
 GW Ross 

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