Earlier in the year, I realized that my Jet 6” jointer did not have a long enough infeed bed for what I was doing in woodworking. Given that and the rebates on the SC jointer, I planned on trading up.

From what I can tell, most people keep their jointers set at 1/32 removal. Given that, why worry about the parallelogram bed if you are not going to use that feature?

Money was an issue with the purchase. I did not want to spend the cash on an 8”, and I figured that I would be doing mostly edge jointing. I could see an argument for something as large as a 12”, but value my life, so I stopped looking at them. Plus, there is always a friend that you can buy off with a few beers for the rare occurance that you need to use something that large.

The only thing that I changed on my jointer was the v-belt to a link belt. For some reason the belt they ship with causes a lot of vibration. The paddle on the on/off switch actually was flapping.

The jointer has a built in 3 wheel base that makes it very easy to maneuver as well as strong and stable when the front wheel is raised off of the ground.

There is a steel arm that raises the paddle switch at a more accessible level than some of the older jointers. When jointing long boards, this comes in handy. There is also a paddle on the switch to make it easier to depress the STOP portion of the button.