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   JohnWW | Mar 29, 2008 03:47am | #1

   Bruce,

   No one has ever made aftermarket guards for a jointer so you are out of luck there.

   If you are very lucky you might find one used. Go to owwm.com. a site for old woodworking machine enthusiasts and look at their classified section. If no one is currently selling one you can post that you are looking for a guard. E-bay is another possibility but finding the part is a long shot. If there are used machinery dealers in your area you might find that they have a bone yard they can search through.

   The other approach is to make one, there are three approaches:

   1. Get a guard from another machine, The chances are that the shaft diameter will be wrong, and smaller, but that can be fixed with a bushing. It is likely that you will have to get a machine shop to make the bushing, but that is a relatively simple job.

   I would go to Grizzly for the guard, but don't expect them to help you choose an appropriate part, their techs wouldn't know the dimensions of the guards on their machines. Most jointers are pretty much generic and all use fairly identical guard assemblies. You might find that a guard for an 8" machine is a better match than one for a 6" jointer.

   2. You can have a machinist make a new shaft, with a flange on the top that you can screw onto the underside of a shop made plywood "porkchop". This would cost considerably more to have made than a simple bushing.

   3. You could make a European style guard, probably on an arm mounted to the stand the machine will sit on. This would be a fun engineering project if you are inclined that way.

   Good luck, John white

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   bbR | Mar 29, 2008 04:15am | #2

   Thank you very much; I'm off and running.
   I judge a European type would hang or be suspended from an arm above? Is there an illustration of this. I recall seeing such for table saw but where?

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   JohnWW | Mar 29, 2008 04:54am | #3

   No the jointer guards are different. Look at Felder, Rojek, or MiniMax machines or the combination jointer/thickness planers now being sold by Jet and Grizzly.John W.