Coop Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 My adult beverage is Metamucile and it darn sure doesn't slow you down! Great addition dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 cant wait for this to start up again! Nice addition to the shop and no longer dealing with that bear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 So should we expect round two of milling soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Thats one seriously sexy jointer man. Congrats, you are going to love it I am sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Entire shop is looking sharp Eric! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Fire that beauty up and send one of those curly maple boards over it until you have a wedge. And you have one nicely equipped and organized shop - good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eric. Posted December 8, 2015 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 First things first -- I'm in love with this jointer. All of the crap that irritated me about the Grizzly (without mention of laying a big fat bear turd in my shop at the end) was entirely absent with the PM.It came fully assembled in a crate on one pallet. Literally all I had to do was put the blade guard on, clean the cosmoline off, and raise the outfeed table by about 1/32". That's it. It even came fully wired with a plug and ready to go, although I had my buddy put a nicer and longer cord on it anyway so I could reach the outlet.Both tables and the fence are about as dead nuts flat as you could hope for. Checked for coplanarity...dead nuts. Flattened a board...dead nuts.Despite the fact that I'll basically never move the fence now that it's set at 90*, it's nice to know that it slides smooth as silk and locks down perfectly tight if I ever wanted to. Add to that the the little wheel that adjusts the fence angle...awesome...it's a major improvement over what I was used to.The machine is an absolute beast. There's basically no vibration at the table, and it just hums along as it happily makes dead flat and smooth boards. It seemed like such a ridiculous amount to pay for a one trick pony machine. Right now I don't give a damn about any of that money. Anyway, enough of that. Joe came over this morning and we got back to it. Headed straight into round two of milling which took most of the morning. We filled up another drum with chips at the planer getting our boards down to just proud of 3/4", then moved on to jointing edges and gluing up panels. I'll tell you what, this is a ridiculous amount of lumber these two chests require. I seriously haven't milled this much at one time since I built the Roubo. And if I'm honest, at a few points I've felt a little overwhelmed by the number of boards laying around that I have to keep track of. We got Joe's case panels glued up before he had to leave, and I'll do mine this evening. Already it feels like relief having so many less boards floating about.We plan to resume Thursday. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Glad you're happy with the new machine. The shop does look like a good place to work. I think we have the same high tech HD yellow handle chisel that has been relegated to glue scraping duty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 wow Nice looking jointer!I bet you're glad you are back in the swing of things! Ya know, without that damn bear in your shop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anodyne Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Congrats on the jointer Eric! It's one sweet machine. Picked up the 60HH in the Black Friday sale and keep on wondering if saving the cash for the parallelogram was worth it. I'm sure those fears will subside when it finally arrives. You got yours fast? Where did you order from? Got mine through the Woodsmith store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Now you see what I mean that this jointer actually makes you love milling lumber. Glad you love it man. I have some lumber to mill up later this evening and I cant wait! Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted December 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 I always enjoyed milling but this machine definitely takes it to a new level of pleasure.anodyne - I ordered mine from Amazon and took the first available delivery appointment. I'm pretty sure they're all drop-shipped from PM regardless of who you order from...I guess it just depends on how quickly your retailer puts in the order and how close you are to the distribution center. I think it's in TN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Bet you're glad to be back at it. Your buddy Joe looks like a natural has he done this before? Your new jointer makes my 23 year old 6" Grizzly look like a matchbox toy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N00b-in-training Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 I always enjoyed milling but this machine definitely takes it to a new level of pleasure.anodyne - I ordered mine from Amazon and took the first available delivery appointment. I'm pretty sure they're all drop-shipped from PM regardless of who you order from...I guess it just depends on how quickly your retailer puts in the order and how close you are to the distribution center. I think it's in TN.PM and Jet are based in TN (just outside of Nashville). They have a huge distribution center here but I'm not sure if they have others throughout the US. I know when I've talked to my local Woodcraft they've told me I can choose if my order comes from Woodcraft Distribution (their preference) or directly from PM/Jet. Ironically, my dust collector/clamps are the only Jet/PM products I own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eric. Posted December 9, 2015 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Bet you're glad to be back at it. Your buddy Joe looks like a natural has he done this before?Nah, he knows some construction but this is all new to him. He's got a decent instructor though. And he's capable of paying attention to details...and that's about 90% of woodworking, ya know?Yes, very glad to have the shop back to 100%. I feel whole again. There was a void, Jerry. A void. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wouldwurker Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 That jointer is smoking Eric - congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cancelleri Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 I always enjoyed milling but this machine definitely takes it to a new level of pleasure.anodyne - I ordered mine from Amazon and took the first available delivery appointment. I'm pretty sure they're all drop-shipped from PM regardless of who you order from...I guess it just depends on how quickly your retailer puts in the order and how close you are to the distribution center. I think it's in TN.PM/Jet Distro center is in LaVerne Tennessee. All my Jet machines, and my PM Planer came from there. Did you crowbar your crate apart like I did at first? Then I realized that they put big screws at the bottom that you can take out with a screwgun and just lift the giant box off the top. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted December 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Yeah Tom I did pry bar the crate apart, but I had to open it partially while the shipping guys were here just to make sure it was the right unit, wasn't all jacked up, and that we were rolling it in the right direction. At that point I just knocked the sides off. It was pretty flimsy anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroDave Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 PM/Jet Distro center is in LaVerne Tennessee. All my Jet machines, and my PM Planer came from there. Did you crowbar your crate apart like I did at first? Then I realized that they put big screws at the bottom that you can take out with a screwgun and just lift the giant box off the top.I lifted the box off mine then used my Sawzall to demolish the rest... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted December 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Finally we had a chance to make a little progress. And when i say little I mean very little. We crosscut the panels to final dimension... and then spent the rest of the day assembling and learning the mindmelt machine... We went through the manual then watched the DVD...twice. I thought my Incra router table was a complicated way to make dovetails. This unit makes the Incra seem like Dr. Seuss. By the end of it I felt like it would have been faster just to teach Joe how to cut them by hand. But I think I get it now and we're planning for test boards Monday morning. I expect Monday morning to be one of the most frustrating days of my life. Eccentric bushings...psh...thanks for that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 That's the one thing I hate about the D4.. I have to pull the manual back out each time I use it and relearn it again. The problem with using it infrequently! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwood Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 I have actually thought about selling mine. It's like algebra, if you don't use it you loose it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 6 minutes ago, Southwood said: I have actually thought about selling mine. It's like algebra, if you don't use it you loose it Quadratic what?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 The D4 manual is intimidating but when you follow each step it isn't that bad. The good news is they are some of the best manuals out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 If you were just doing a plain old box with through dovetails I would say it would be easy and you're gonna breeze through it. But asymmetric dovetails really complicate things with the D4R (and really any jig). I've done it before so let me know if you have any questions (I know we talked about it a while back and you had it down cold but I'm sure you've forgotten by now.) Make sure you keep the router in the same orientation the entire time you're routing (especially since you're using two routers.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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