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Jointer (Missing Shop Manual): The Tool Information You Need at Your Fingertips (Fox Chapel Publishing)
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About Jointer (Missing Shop Manual): The Tool Information
Product Description This handy pocket-sized guide offers all the tips, tricks, and ideas a woodworker or furniture maker needs to get the most out of this indispensable tool.Dedicated to providing integral information about woodworking tools and techniques that other manuals overlook, the books in this series contain safety facts, explanations about basic project set-up, and tips for maximizing tool performance.In Jointer, woodworkers will find out how to best utilize this essential workshop tool, and how to get the most for their money by getting the most from their equipment. Filled with clear diagrams and instructions, this pocket-sized durable manual is ideal for quick reference in the workshop.The Missing Shop Manual Series goes beyond the basic safety and set-up you'll learn tips and techniques for maximizing your tools performance with jigs and fixtures without the fluff, just straight tool information you need to succeed. Review These are really helpful reference books that you will regularly refer to. This series of books are excellent reference books for your shop library. The opening pages of the Jointer book show the anatomy of generic Jointers and continues on with the tool basics that many of us might have forgotten. This supposition is the 'raison d'etre' of the Skills Institute Press book series. The Jointer book however also includes another important woodshop tool, the thickness planer which is a bonus but one would think that this fact should be featured on the cover. Adjusting and aligning of the tool are featured as well as some neat tips on tapering, rabbets and chamfers. Chapter four deals with the Thickness Planer and illustrates its basic uses. Pages 58 and 59 give the woodworker tips on how to plane both short and very thin pieces. It is always of the utmost importance to keep the jointer and planer knives ultra sharpo and the final pages of this book show you how.I love woodworking. I'm not great at it - I figure it'll take me another 15+ years to hit that magic 10,000 hour mark in the shop to reach an expert's level of craftsmanship. But in the meantime, I try to always have something going on in the shop that either allows me to learn a new skill or get a bit more practice with an older one. Right now, I'm enjoying learning how to properly use my router table. I know how to use a router as a stand-alone device, but the table is going to allow me to branch out and really do some interesting stuff. But mounting the router underneath the table brought with it some questions that required me to dig out the router manual a big white heap of pages that answered my question but not with a lot of enjoyment. I've done this in the past, breaking out my stack of manuals to remind myself how to tune my table saw or replace the blade correctly in my band saw. The operator manuals that come with tools are definitely useful, but they have one glaringly obvious drawback - the manual will tell you how to properly and safely operate a tool, but it won't tell you how to really use it. You won't get the advice that a pro can offer when you're first getting your feet wet with a new tool (well, unless you have access to a few pros). This is exactly the situation I found myself in when I first purchased my circular saw, my table saw, my band saw, and my router. I tell you all this so you'll understand (and not poke too much fun at me) why I grabbed the box from the UPS guy and beat a path to my man cave to tear into the care package sent to me from Fox Chapel Publishing. They've got books on a lot of different subjects from Mennonite Cookbooks to Sewing to Winemaking to Woodburning. But it's their woodworking titles that make me drool, with subjects ranging from furniture making to pinewood derby cars. Tucked in the box were ten little books I've been itching to read and review, and I've just completed the entire set after just a little over a week. If that sounds like a lot of reading in a short time, res
