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What a pain. Mine is a Performax Plus-had partial mods built in for the accessory tables. Got many small sheet metal cuts and lousy hardware-nuts were neither metric nor imperial-just cheap. How close have you gotten yours? I gave up at 1/64th" out of perfect plane from the conveyor-I was going crazy-at least I got consistency in the error-same for I & O.

I have some second class tops and figured I would learn to thickness with them. I've barely used the unit and I think the after-purchased I/O tables were in their box for a year.--mt

Mines a Jet. Difference between the ends of the rollers is between .005" and .010" if I put the wood (tops and bottoms) through 2 or 3 times at the same setting.

Edit: oops, misread the question. I don't use the infeed/outfeed tables.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Steve-still useful as I work on the settings;thanks.mt

The I/O tables on my Jet 10/20 Plus are actually a little bit lower than the conveyor. When they were closer to the same exact plane, the conveyor didn't feed work straight into the drum. I couldn't tell you exactly how much lower the tables are, I set them by eyeball and feed action.


HTH,

Chris.

I don't use them, I find my hand is always perfectly coplaner.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

You don't need the tables for anything used in lutherie. Pieces are too short, and too light.

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/

Interesting, Laurent. I bought the accessory tables after having some snipe problems on hardwood billets being thicknessed for the infill of handmade miter box planes I used to make. The billets were often 2 1/2 inches "plus" thick and sometimes a foot long. It is good to know that I will have somewhat less tendency toward that with more typical thicknesses for guitars. I had not planned upon using the Jet to square neck blanks-I prefer my old Bedrock 606 for such tasks. I run the thick stuff on a Shopsmith accessory 4" jointer and finish by hand.mt

I use the 10-20 for thicknessing everything, including 1/2 neck blanks over 24" long for laminated necks and 32" trays for making purf lines. I found that you get the snipe at the ends only if you try to sand too agressively. Light passes with 24 or 36 grit are great to remove a lot of stock quickly, and I switch to 80 for the final passes.

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/