"Stephen M" wrote in
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Yes, Shallow.

I would dispute this. I use a shallow cut for face jointing,
because it's hard to maintain a consistant speed & pressure with
the resistance of the whole width of the board. But for edge
jointing I'll start with a much more aggressive cut until the
edge is close to straight, because it makes it easier to control
the board and avoid tapering it if I make fewer passes.

Why would tapering be a problem? I joint the face, joint the edge then
rip to width.

If the board is narrower at the ends than the middle, when you're
edge joining it you need to feed it so only the middle is cut for
the first few passes...otherwise the board will taper from one end
to the other.

Where the stock allows, I try
to plan for more than one finished piece from a board, and I
joint and plane it before cutting to length (for significantly
non-flat boards I cut first, simply because for those you'd
end up jointing/planing too much of the board thickness away
if you didn't)

Well I could not disagree more. Planning to cut that much stock off
every board is wasteful. Tune you planer to avoid snipe. face-jointing
a full-length board is wasteful as it requires more stock removal to
remove the bow from a board. 1/4" bow over eight feet will require
removal of 1/4" of stock. 2 four-footers from that same board will
require about 1/16" of stock removal.

As I said, "where the stock allows". Obviously a board which is
not reasonably flat to begin with can't be jointed full-length
without excess loss of thickness, which is exactly what I said
in the parenthesis above.

John