Kent and Shawn from Grizzly present a tutorial on fine-tuning a dovetail-style jointer, focusing on the Grizzly G0654 6-inch jointer model. The video aims to help users maintain their equipment and provides an overview of the procedure to check and correct table parallelism issues. They stress the importance of reading the owner's manual and following all safety instructions. The process involves using a straight edge and feeler gauges to measure parallelism between the cutter head and infeed table, as well as between the infeed and outfeed tables. Shimming between bearing blocks and the mount is recommended to correct parallelism issues with the cutter head and infeed table. Adjusting the outfeed table involves adding shims between the dovetails and the base casting. They suggest starting with five-thousandths of an inch shims and incrementally adjusting until parallelism is achieved. Finally, they advise setting the outfeed table level with the top of the knives and securing the table gib set screws before woodworking tasks.
We trust you will find this video to be beneficial. Please feel free to reach out to us HERE if you have any questions on how to parallel your dovetail jointer.