Types of Wood

• Any type of wood that can be cut into relatively thin pieces can be planed by a jointer. This includes, but is not limited to, oak, cedar, cherry, birch and maple. A jointer is capable of taking any hard wood and making it ready to be joined for flooring, fencing, furniture or countless other applications.
  
  

Procedure for Jointing

• To use a jointer in order to join wood, the user needs to feed individual pieces through the gate of the jointer. The gate is an adjustable part of the machine that allows the wood to safely be planed by the knives of the jointer. The planing action can be used to square edges of wood and make the surface perfectly smooth.
  
  

History

• Jointers (formerly known as joynters) date back to 1687. Originally jointers were simple hand planes. Around 1790 Sir Samuel Bentham of England revolutionized the woodworking world by introducing rotary cutting. This invention allowed wood to be fed into a machine instead of being hand-tooled. Rotary cutting is used in planers, shapers and many other woodworking tools besides jointers.