woodworking - Setting Jointer Knives

The this woodworking tutorial, I'll show you how to set up your jointer blades correctly.
Setting Jointer knives correctly is critical in getting the tool set correctly in order to make sure boards are planed straight and even.
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[@AKADonBrewer]

I am so glad I found your video. It's a long story but my father passed away in 2000 and left his Craftsman tools to one of my older brothers I set up my own wood shop a while back in my older brother gave me all the tools left to him by our father. One of the tools is an old Craftsman jointer which is probably 60 years old. When I set it up in my shop and started testing it I began noticing that Arch and it is pretty bad. I had no idea what was causing it until I just watched your video. I also noticed some Nicks and the blades and I will see if you have a video on sharpening the blades. Thank you very much sir for your video because I was totally lost with no clue as to what to do. I gave you a super thanks And subscribe to your Channel. Thank you again very much

[@DavenH]

Who's watching at 2x speed?

[@user-ex3vi9xo2g]

Watching from Garissa Kenya..this is very brilliant work..thank you very much

[@coldblu357]

Omg! My jointer was driving me crazy until I saw your video! Watched it to the end, made the adjustments as you described and couldn't believe my eyes at how accurate it cuts. Thank you so much!👍😉

[@edthorne6253]

That's what I call a very helpful video with excellent technical description, best I've seen yet !!! Well done Colin

[@coa2222]

Wanted to thank you Colin, i bought a hand jointer on a flemarket and didnt know how to set it up, thanks to this video now i have good results with it, thanks a lot.

[@williammueller768]

A friend gave me his tabletop jointer/planer. I just got it completely cleaned and put back together (minus the cutter guard). Once I get that back in place, I am going to try both methods with setting the blades. Looking forward to trying it out. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos.

[@prestigeroseguitars8245]

Been struggling for months with my planer not cutting right. 5 minutes later, WHAM! Perfect cuts!

[@elibertonagera3406]

I was having so much trouble getting my jointer to cut properly

[@DavidJones-qx5yf]

Thank you !

[@rodneythomson305]

Thank you so much, I followed the instruction you gave and now my old craftsman is making perfect cuts again. Rod

[@keyin2it]

You Explained what no one else was able to. Thanks so much!

[@jimturner6400]

Thanks very useful .

[@knecht105]

Thanks for commenting ... yup, you are right, you can avoid snipe, and if you want to spend a lot more time re-setting jointer knives, setting them even with the outfeed table is the way to go. If you hate re-setting jointer knives and can live with a bit of snipe, setting them slightly above the outfeed table is still the best option. Above all, you never want the knives to fall below the outfeed table.

[@knecht105]

Well, I always say if it is working for you ... don't change :) With my own jointer, when I do this I get rounding, ever so slightly, but enough that when I try to glue boards together they are don't fit well. For mine, the blade needs to be slightly above the outfeed in order to get flat boards, which of course now entails a wee bit of snipe, but that's what works on my jointer. Thanks for commenting, always good to hear what others are doing, gives us more options to explore. Colin

[@billwebster759]

Some good points. I played the video at 2x speed and it was just right.

[@knecht105]

Hi Kirk, that's one of the things I love about woodworking, there are many different ways to accomplish the same thing. I have a set of the magnetic jigs and have used, and mine worked ok, then I happened to read the manual for my jointer (5 years later) and discovered it had setscrews to set the blades ... sheesh, who knew. Thanks for commenting, love to hear what others are doing and when they pass along good info like this too. Colin

[@sammitchell6624]

Thank you very much I thought I wasted my money buying a jointer but you helped fix all of my issues thank you Colin

[@knecht105]

@frost0813 You are absolutely right ... and thanks for pointing it out, the closer you can get your blades to the height of the out-feed table the less snipe. You obviously have put quite a bit of time into fine tuning your equipment, great to have your skills and insights and to be able to help pass this info along to others too. Thanks again for your input ... always welcome :) Colin

[@stuballs42]

Great light shared here ! I have an very old Makita Joiner surfacer combo,and although I cannot use my surfacer any more because of failure of the rubber used on the rollers at the time ,I still love my 4 foot joiner bed and continue to use it regularly . This video has shown in very easy terms how to adjust the cutting blades ! My blades were to damn low for a period of time and it was frustrating as heck trying to fix the problem! Guess what ???after listening to this man ,my blades are cutting perfect once again. Makita even furnished Carbide blades on their combo,planer,joiner ,even though the piece of machinery is I believe over 25 years old !