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It is useful if you have a piece of wood wider than your jointer, narrower than your planer, shorter than your sled, thick enough for your clamps to grab, not heavy enough to bend your sled, and you only want to face joint it. That leaves out 99.5% of the wood you'll ever want to joint, as well as edge jointing. Edge jointing can be done on a table saw or a router table, but I don't think you have either of those things either. And in both cases it only works so-so. @Voltron and I have both recently purchased combo jointer planers from Hammer. Al is still waiting on his, and mine arrived after a 3 month wait only to sit in the garage due to movers failing to be able to get it to the basement. But I'm with @swt61that a small benchtop jointer makes sense until you think you are going to use it a lot. This one is fine for most things. Alternatively, you can joint things larger than any power jointer with one of these for far less money.

Fair enough. I've tried hooking up a shopvac to my jointer, and it did bupkis. The machine clogged. https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/questions/768/what-advantages-does-a-dust-collector-have-over-a-shop-vac

On a jobsite, does anyone care about collecting dust? A planer is always going to make more, and larger, chips than a shopvac can handle.

Yes. If you use it outside, you might get away without one. They used to sell it with just a bag, but the internal fan wasn't enough and they clogged so it didn't really work. Also, what good is a planer without a jointer?

They offer a 30 day no questions asked return policy. https://www.festoolownersgroup.com/festool-jigs-tool-enhancements/ts-55-anti-tip/

https://www.rockler.com/dust-right-cord-and-hose-holder Stand on the side of the saw rather than behind it and walk along the cut

You can clamp a board to it to act as a straight edge for the bearing. Or the festool router can run in the track saw track. I'm not sure I'm understanding your complaint. The track saw should be able to lock in the angle.

https://www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com/mitre-shooting-board.html

I like milk paint on Baltic Birch.

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I agree with Steve. This is easy on conventional tools. I also think it is really difficult on a CNC. My concern is how thin it is. Most wood will warp.

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All of them, obviously.

Also try a router with a patterning bit. It will give you very clean and nicely rounded inside corners.

Looks great. Rip blade probably cuts faster but leaves more pronounced tool marks to clean up, standard blade is more likely to burn.

Can anyone comment on the marantz/clear audio 15S1 and how it compares to some of the other options mentioned?

Has anyone ever actually used that feature? I'm skeptical. People definitely speak highly of the woodpecker fence. The unique jessem feature I'm interested in is the add on slider, but I'm not sure it's worth the extra cost.

Good to hear. I have had what might charitably be called mixed results with various woodpecker things I have bought. I could definitely use a real fence for my drill. I've been eyeing the JessEm fence. My current fence, from Rockler, is functional but not great. I also have an incra positioner which is nice, but the incra fence part feels like an afterthought.

Purple heart won't stay purple for long. It turns brown. Two ways to fix that... https://www.lie-nielsen.com/products/no-7-jointer-plane http://www.powermatic.com/us/en/c/jointers/P90

I doubt either ebony or koa boards will be too large for the car. also, owl has preshrunk BB ply: https://www.owlhardwood.com/baltic-birch.html

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