Here recently I can’t seem to joint a board to save my life. Never had an issue with it before but now, I don’t know. I’m trying to make an endgrain cutting board and have made two this past Christmas, but now I’m doing something wrong and I guess I need to re-evaluate my technique or something.
I’ll start out with a board like this. Pretty flat already right? No rocking, pretty solid on the table. Shouldn’t need but a couple passes.
Then I get started on it and end up with a board like this where the raised end just gets more and more exaggerated and the whole thing becomes tapered.
I’ve done it on about three boards now and it’s just a waste of wood until I figure this out. What’s the technique for going across the jointer? Where do you apply pressure? I’ve been watching YT jointing technique vids and some people recommend applying no pressure, some on the outfeed table, and some on the infeed table. In woodshop basics it was recommended that we just move the board across the blade and don’t apply any pressure anywhere beyond what’s needed to move it across the blade and that, because the jointer is taking off the perfect amount to inline with the outfeed table, no pressure should be needed. That doesn’t seem to be working for me anymore.
I don’t think it’s something being catawampus with the table either because no one else has been reporting issues with it.