It’s 20 inches, really!

We’ve added a 20″ Grizzly planner to the shop.  Here’s a quick video explaining why.

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📍 📍 📍 \Hey, today I’ve got some good news for you. We have actually noticed some issues with using the joiner planer  combo in this environment. Well, we’ve discovered that it’s not really industrial style machine. It’s not meant for all this conversion. And there are days where this thing gets converted back and forth, you know, five, six, seven, eight times a day is one of the most used tools in the shop.

So what we’ve done to correct that problem is we’ve got a new 20 inch Grizzly planer. And this thing is beautiful, it’s a beast, it will put a wonderful finish on your wood. So we now have a 20 inch planer, and now we’re gonna use this as a dedicated 12 inch joiner. So we’re gonna try to avoid switching back and forth between planer and joiner, in fact I’d say there’s no real reason to do that, we might end up doing it some classes.

To get people through, but really for normal day to day operations, this should just stay as a 12 inch jointer. The other thing that I’m going to ask is that we leave the depth setting where we’ve got it set, which is about sixteenth of an inch, and that we don’t move it. That’s another area where it’s seeing a lot of wear and tear.

If you feel like you need to take off something, either a little bit less or a little bit more, then let’s talk about it. And I I’ll help you with it. Or if you know how it should be done and you’ve used it before, then you can feel free to change it yourself. But I’d like to kind of keep it as 16th of an inch.

So this is great news for the joinery and it’s great news for the members. This is going to provide better cuts, better quality furniture or whatever it is that you’re building with a new 12 inch dedicated joiner. And the 20 inch dedicated planer. This is going to be awesome. Hope you guys enjoy it.