In article ,
Morris Dovey wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:

In article , Morris
Dovey wrote:

Jay Pique wrote:

Anyone seen a jointer that has a fixed blade? What I'm
thinking is something like a jointer plane held upside
down with a power feeder that rams the board over it,
creating a nice smooth shaving along the length and width
of the board. Have some strong featherboards pusing from
the top and the side, and then a piston type thingy or
something that feeds the board through.

Hmm. If you turn the blade lengthwise and apply it to a
rotating log instead of a sliding board...

That's what I'd call making pencils the _hard_ way. grin

This is one of those backward tools. The shaving is the product
(veneer) and the pencil is the waste (-:

Yeah. like one of those strange food products:

"First you throway the outside.
And you cook the inside.
Then you eat the outside,
and throw away the inside."