Re: OT Turning a router table into a jointer

Suggest you post this over in the woodworking NG

It would work for edge jointing but not face jointing. You need a BIG router table, several feet long. A standard home shop 6" jointer has 24" tables on both ends. Your fence needs to be just as long and STRAIGHT. The *** aluminum (not the coiled stock) at a home store comes in various thicknesses in the range you need. You will want a 1/2" router if you do much of this.

stryped wrote:
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I have read that it may be possible to edge joint wood turnign your
router table into a jointer of sorts by shimming the outfeed side of
the fence 1/32 or 1/64 of an inch or so. Then leveling the straight cut
bit with his side of the fence, therefore leaving a 1/32 or 1/64 "gap"
from the blade to the infeed fence.

I am just getting into woodworking. WOuld this work? What could i find
at my local harware storwe that would allow me this 1/32 - 1/64 gap?

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