Thread: buggered me jointer knives!!!!

I feel for you mate, its always scared me puting old, scrounged timber on the jointer. What do you do now. New blades, or can they be ground out?

Incidentally, I've got a smick little nail detector, you're welcome to borrow.

buggered me jointer knives!!!!

Did it hurt?

Winger ! I do that all the time, but I don't carry on like that .

I don't know how bad the nicks are, but you might be able to slide a blade or two slightly to cover the nicks.....keep you going for a while without little lines appearing on your timber.

Spose somebody will suggest you buy a metal detecter as well.

Been there, done that

Whinger... Vandal!!!

$49.00 will buy you a cheap metal detector & that's cheaper than getting a set of blades sharpened!

So Zed is mortal after all.

Peter.

When you pull them out to resharpen them shorten each one by about 3mm.
Then next time you get a nick you can slide one blade to the other end.
The next nick means you can slide the other blade to the opposite end .

Originally Posted by Bodgy

Incidentally, I've got a smick little nail detector, you're welcome to borrow.

Sounds like he already has one. He's just not happy with how it finds 'em.

Total B*mm#r! I have a nifty little metal detector for such - of course brass screws will catch one out, but brass is soft. Isn't it?

Now Skew, that's just plain mean

Bummer bro

The downside of doing the right thing and re-cycling eh?

Funny thing is,the only time I've used recycled timber in a project (oregon roof joists) it blunted my thicknesser knives.
At least there were'nt any nails though.

Now if you were a drinker you'd be able to drown your sorrows.

Maybe time to invest in a metal detector?

Yeah Zed - no matter how carefully you go over recycled wood, some b$2! has always stuck a nail or staple in a spot you would never have expected! I do any planing/jointing of recycled wood, when the knives are about to go out for sharpening (& in case you think that's an oxymoron, my planer seems to handle hard woods ok with much duller edges than it will handle softer woods).
I take the wood to the machine only after very careful scraping, scratching, handplaning, or cutting on the table saw with an old carbide blade kept for the purpose. The little 'SSHHNIC' and the nice little silver full-stop on the cut surface shows me most of the missed ones.

But despite all that care, I still hit the odd nail, too! :mad: :mad:

Metal detectors help, but they aren't infallible, either, unless they've improved out of sight in the last 10 yrs or so.
Just accept it as the price we noble ones must pay for helping to save the trees...............
Cheers,

In my case completly stuffing a brand new bandsaw blade made the $200.00 investment in a good metal detector very easy to wear.

Ouch!
In some of that same pine that you gave me, I found ball bearings embedded - guess they'd been on the floor that the pallet was put on. Fortunately I found them the cheap way.