This handy pocket-sized guide offers all the tips, tricks, and ideas a woodworker or furniture maker needs to get the most out of this indispensable tool. Dedicated to providing integral information about woodworking tools and techniques that other manuals overlook, the books in this series contain safety facts, explanations about basic project set-up, and tips for maximizing tool performance. In Jointer , woodworkers will find out how to best utilize this essential workshop tool, and how to get the most for their money by getting the most from their equipment. Filled with clear diagrams and instructions, this pocket-sized durable manual is ideal for quick reference in the workshop. The Missing Shop Manual Series goes beyond the basic safety and set-up you'll learn tips and techniques for maximizing your tools performance with jigs and fixtures without the fluff, just straight tool information you need to succeed. These are really helpful reference books that you will regularly refer to. This series of books are excellent reference books for your shop library. The opening pages of the Jointer book show the anatomy of generic Jointers and continues on with the tool basics that many of us might have forgotten. This supposition is the 'raison d'etre' of the Skills Institute Press book series. The Jointer book however also includes another important woodshop tool, the thickness planer which is a bonus but one would think that this fact should be featured on the cover. Adjusting and aligning of the tool are featured as well as some neat tips on tapering, rabbets and chamfers. Chapter four deals with the Thickness Planer and illustrates its basic uses. Pages 58 and 59 give the woodworker tips on how to plane both short and very thin pieces. It is always of the utmost importance to keep the jointer and planer knives ultra sharpo and the final pages of this book show you how. Shop Information Woodworkers Need to Succeed When you unpack a new jointer, the enclosed manual doesn't venture much beyond basic safety, assembly, and setup. That leaves from head-scratching when it's time to turn it on and start surfacing a board. Where's the manual that covers all the things your new jointer is designed to do? The Missing Shop Manual- Jointer takes that next step with you. In addition to explaining the basics of safety and setup, this handy reference manual will help you get the most for your money by getting the most from your equipment . From making rough boards smooth and straight to creating seamless joints, you'll discover the techniques and tips you need to maximize your jointer's performance. Even if you've been woodworking for years, you'll wish this was the manual that originally came with your new jointer. Get the complete set for your shop: Circular Saws and Jig Saws Table Saw Glue and Clamps Lathe Router Drills and Drill Presses John Kelsey is a journalist and editor specializing in woodworking and furniture making. He has a degree in woodworking and furniture design from the School for American Craft at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a former editor in chief of Fine Woodworking magazine and a publisher of woodworking and home building books at the Taunton Press. He is the author of Furniture Projects for the Deck and Lawn. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut.