Thicknesser help

[delabodge]

Dewalt733 is a great little machine,sold mine yrs ago and wish I'd kep it for small stuff,obviously my large planner is the nuts but would have another d733 tomorrow.

[astra25]

What jointers or jointer/thiknesser are people using to flatten/square there rough saw lumber?

[Peter]

  Big J said:

I have a three phase SGM with an 18 inch throat that I bought and don't really want if it's of any interest.

 

I'm interested.....

[Big J]

My mistake, it's an SCM, not SGM. I'll post details later today.

[Big J]

SCM 2200 I am told (was going to be extracting it today but have epic sinus pain), which has a 500mm planing width. I'm promised some photos later today.

[ucoulddoit]

  astra25 said:

What jointers or jointer/thiknesser are people using to flatten/square there rough saw lumber?

 

Sheppach 2600 CI. Very accurate, but limited to 10 inches wide. I'm by no means an expert on this, but my view is the choice depends on the intended use (pretty obvious!). My priority was to be able to flatten and straighten a piece of milled and dried timber which might be quite distorted, in addition to planing to a uniform thickness. I looked at bench top planers but was concerned that it would be difficult to straighten and flatten longish boards before thicknessing them, as the bed is very short, so a banana shaped and twisted boarded would come out still slightly banana shaped and twisted, but flat across the width and uniform thickness. Probably less of an issue for short timbers or constructional timbers?

 

Andrew

[Graham w]

  Big J said:

My mistake, it's an SCM, not SGM. I'll post details later today.

 

scm is invincible! well done mate:thumbup1:

[se7enthdevil]

  astra25 said:

What jointers or jointer/thicknesser are people using to flatten/square there rough saw lumber?

 

i got hold of a refurbished machine called a junior whitehead 12"x4" and it really is the dogs doo dahs...

 

well worth getting older machines in my opinion as they're built to last. mine has a 4" block in it with 3 knives and modern ones usually only have a 2 1/2" max with 2 knives.

 

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[Ian Leach]

  agg221 said:

Yes, should be able to take a couple of pictures tomorrow.

 

Alec

 

Cheers

[agg221]

  Ian Leach said:

Cheers

 

Failed to do so as the job I was getting it out for got pushed back when other things took a lot longer than planned. Should be tomorrow evening now.

 

Alec