Thread: What is it, please?

That would be my guess as well.
Regards

Thanks, Hugh.

Do you know where I could find some info on how that one's used?

I've only ever set the thicknesser blades by using a parallel rebate about 10mm down into a bit of weathertex or masonite-just vbecause I knew no better, and that's where the scratch mark was before I took them off to get them sharpened.

You place it across the cutter head with the bar up so that the 2 discs touch the blade and press down until it sits solidly on the head. I'd assume that the screws on the other side are so that you can adjust the position of the discs to get the blade nice and parallel (should just be a once off adjustment).

Hope that makes sense - it does in my head

Thanks, but sorry-I'm no better able to follow it. (I'm a bit dumb...& lost)
I sat it on our thicknesser head & blade this arvo, and no orientation stood out as correct. Nothing made sense-that's why I asked here.
Thanks for trying!

How old do you think it is? Might be for a square-head planer??

Paul

No idea, really could be 8 to 25 years old.
It's just plastic, plus brass 'bolts' and steel shaft, and about 10" wide.

Possibly it is for a smaller version of this ... you need a different arrangement to when the cutterhead is a cylinder.

I know what a thicknesser is (thanks!) -we have two that look a bit like that photo of yours- a 12" Jeffwood & a 20" Jager- each weighs 450-700 kg approx.

The Jeffwood has a square cutterblock, the Jager has a sausage shaped one, kind-of circular with two flat spots, or an elongated square with a bit of a round between the flats.

It's just how to use that jig that's beyond my befuddled brain at the moment.

Thanks for the reply!

Originally Posted by Stewey

I know what a thicknesser is (thanks!)

Hahaha ... I wasn't meaning the thicknesser ...

I think some people wouldn't have seen a square cutter-head. (Or ever want to )

This is what I was picturing ... made by a passing three-year-old child ...

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THANK YOU!
(said by an ex-three year old child, now hair greying and mind falling from too many paint fumes...)

Thanks a a lot-makes sense now. I just has a brain seizure when trying tto arrange it, and that placement never occurred to me.
I'll try it again later!

Its a blade setting jig for jointers??

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I must say I have never seen a square cutter-head.

Thanks very much-that looks 'more' right for the shape of it and the lesser adjustment in the brass knobs!

Here are two squareish cutter heads from our thicknessers - one a Jeffwood 12" and the other a Jager 20"


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