Apart for referring to birds. Snipe also refers to the Jointer.
I had plenty of snipe from my Jointer till I discovered the knives were the same hieght as the outfeed table. I found if I set the knives .010 proud of the outfeed table, the snipe went away.
Brent
Which end was the snipe happening on(the leading end???). That sounds like a prescription to create snipe on the trailing end, Check the infeed table co-planer with the outfeed table. The infeed table may be slanted with the end towards the cutter low. Actually it does not make sense overall??????
Is it possible the end closest to the cutter(where you are measuring that 0.010) is lower that the rest of the outfeed table?
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Goldie(Bought New SN 377425)/4" jointer/6" beltsander/12" planer/stripsander/bandsaw/powerstation /Scroll saw/Jig saw /Craftsman 10" ras/Craftsman 6" thicknessplaner/ Dayton10"tablesaw(restoredfromneighborstrashpile)/ Mark VII restoration in 'progress'/ 10E[/size](SN E3779) restoration in progress, a 510 on the back burner and a growing pile of items to be eventually returned to useful life. - aka Red Grange
A year has gone by (since this thread was started) and a lot has happened but a lot is still the same. It all boils down to technique and attention to detail.
If I remember correctly, the problem with this particular project was poor technique at the jointer. I called it snipe but it was really technique. The piece that was incorrectly cut was just that "a mistake" while jointing. If it had been corrected before final assembly, the finished project might have been perfect. But, it wasn't.
PROBLEM: We do dry fits for a reason. Do the dry fit correctly and problems like this can be avoided. Of course, after a successful dry fit, one still must do the glue up and clamping. A lot of problems can be "created" while clamping. Proper clamping also involves technique. A technique that I am still attempting to develop.
This is just another of the many challenges that we all face while attempting to produce an item that eventually becomes an heirloom.
I have yet to do an heirloom:(.
"Making Sawdust Safely" Dusty
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I have yet to do an heirloom
Well, at least, you are "producing" and trying to do your best.
Thanks Dusty for sharing with us your own mishaps at least that way, we can live with our own ...
IMHO an heirloom is anything that a descendant values enough to retain for themselves and subsequent generations. The exclusions of errors or actual 'quality' are not that important(although descendants further removed[in time] from the origin may view that differently).
Don't sell yourself short Dusty!
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Seems to me that most pieces of furniture/woodwork aren't heriloom's when they are made. But only become so years down the road when they have been in someone's possession long enough to have obtained real sentimental value.
From Merriam-Webster:
Definition of HEIRLOOM
1 : a piece of property that descends to the heir as an inseparable part of an inheritance of real property
2 : something of special value handed on from one generation to another
I'm sure you have produced multiple projects that have special value and will be handed down to future generations.....
