That’s an excellent observation, thanks. The Dual 51 absolutely fits that description. It has an end -mounted parallelogram affair for the fence guide, and an aluminum fence. It’s billed as saving space behind the jointer table that would otherwise be clearance room for the fence post, but flex in the design is a rather huge tradeoff.it flexes more than a little at the very location where you want it to be rigid as all get-out: at the cutter.
An Old Combo
- John Whitley
- Deshi
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- Brian
- Deshi
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I debate these machines as well but im committed to a single function machine. The trade offs just make them seem less than ideal for certain work one might consider a big jointer as being otherwise suited for. Not needing to make space for a planer is nice but not sure it's worth it.
- John Whitley
- Deshi
- Location: Seattle, WA
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Well put, Brian. I'm "coming to my senses" again, and in any event this unit has sold. But Chris' earlier observation puts a sharp point on something I'm wrestling with: it's easy to see the designed-in, well-marketed advantages of a machine. It's harder to see the never-discussed design disadvantages, implementation problems, and other quiet failures.
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