Was window shopping on E-bay and saw an Oliver 24″ jointer, an amazing piece of equipment, anyway just passing it a long I had never seen a machine like that before.
Troy
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Troy, I use a 24" joiner and it makes sense. Many many years ago I bought a 1940's vintage joiner/thickness planer combo made by Markus Fesel of Austria. One of those cast iron behemoths of yore. I disconnected the gearbox of the thickness planer because I only needed it as a joiner, and I've had it for 25 years now. Don't use it that often, but just this week for example, I had an 18" wide slab of teak that needed to be planed. (Have I offended any conservationists? Apologies...) Aside from hand-planing it, how would you handle the job? Anybody who uses slabs in their work needs some way to get them flat, no?
She's an old lady, she sounds like an airplane revving up, but she gets the job done.
DR
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