Should I Buy A Jointer? | WT616

SPEAKER_1 (0:04)

Welcome to Wood Talk. Now here are three guys who always turn the other cheek when cleaning up tenants, Marc, Shannon, and Matt.

Marc Spagnuolo (0:13)

All right. It's show number 616 And on today's show, we're talking about, should I buy a jointer, glue up strategies, and shop walls. So exciting. All that and more.

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Matt Cremona (0:57)

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Marc Spagnuolo (1:27)

Mouth hands.

Matt Cremona (1:27)

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Marc Spagnuolo (1:39)

Some of those ideas. Not my ideas.

Yeah.

Shannon Rogers (1:43)

We all know that.

Marc Spagnuolo (1:44)

Yeah.

Matt Cremona (1:46)

Some of them are pretty bad, so they're probably yours.

Marc Spagnuolo (1:49)

The good ones are hers, the bad ones are hers. I'll admit it. It's fine. All right. Let's get into what's on the bench. So I did decide to go with the two tablesaw setup. I think I kind of talked about toying with that.

It wasn't that bad.

Matt Cremona (2:04)

Really? You went from like, that's not practical.

Shannon Rogers (2:07)

It isn't.

Matt Cremona (2:08)

There's no way I can make this work.

Shannon Rogers (2:09)

I seem to remember that was about a 15 second conversation. Not sure if I could do this, but yeah, I'm going to do it.

Yeah.

Marc Spagnuolo (2:16)

Well, I mean, how many times have you guys heard me say things that I absolutely will not do again, and I wind up doing it again?

Shannon Rogers (2:24)

He's going to write a book on a dual table saw set up.

Marc Spagnuolo (2:27)

Why everyone needs one?

Matt Cremona (2:29)

Hybrid Woodworking.

Marc Spagnuolo (2:30)

Well, here's the good thing. The PM2000 on the floor is at 30, I think it's 31 and a quarter. I don't know the exact number. Either way, but the Powermatic on the floor is exactly the same height as the SawStop in the industrial mobile base, so they're already starting at the same height, which made my job so much easier.

But I got a little like a 12-inch connecting bridge between them, and I devised a little system for leveling it so that I get it just right on both sides. And I haven't actually used it realistically in a project, but they are functional. They're working, the power is connected, it's going. So, I don't know, we'll see. I anticipated...

Matt Cremona (3:09)

You didn't miss your outfeed table, and you don't have an outfeed table anymore.

Marc Spagnuolo (3:12)

Well, the outfeed table has now been converted to like a little work table in the other room. I didn't totally get rid of it. I did cut the top down to make this happen.

But I do think there's going to be some practicality issues, because think about it. Anytime you have to use one, you got to make sure that the fence, the splitter, all that stuff is out of the way in order for it to be effective outfeed on the other side. So, I don't know if that's going to get old at a certain point, or if I'm just going to get used to it, we'll see.

Matt Cremona (3:39)

I mean, it can't be any different than my up-fee tail, which always has crap on it that I got to move anyway. So, it's probably exactly the same.

Marc Spagnuolo (3:46)

Solid point. Except for this will have a fence, it'll have a riving knife and crap on it.