Doug Winterburn wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:50:13 -0500, Rob Mitchell wrote:



In order to joint a board wider than your jointer, you would have to
remove the blade guard and run the board through (doing 6" or 8" of width)
then flip the board around and do the rest. Either way, on one of the
passes the grain will be in the wrong direction.

As for grain direction, there have been several articles recently posted
to this forum, and also in FWW magazine (check your library). It's way
too complicated to try to explain with words alone (at least for me).


You were doing OK up to the part about flipping the board aroud etc.

What you want to do after jointing the first pass is to fit a 1/4" ply
sled to the partially jointed part and run the workpiece and sled
through your thickness planer to flatten other side. Then, flip the board
over and without the sled run it through the thickness planer to flatten
the originially jointed side.

- Doug


The first time I read this (in another comment) I was really
confused. This time, all of a sudden, I realized (rather
slow, I am) that this was about a jointer AND a planer.

The answer is ok, however, it doesn't answer the question,
of how do you joint a board wider than your jointer, which
to me assumes you don't have a planer. Maybe the answer is
that you can get close but you can't truly joint the board.