Hi all
I'm considering milling up some tongue and groove finger jointed panelling out of a pile of suitable stock material that I already have. This would involve using the jointer to straighten and square the timber? followed by thicknessing, then getting some sort of tongue and groove cutter either shaper cutter or router cutter. I have a CF 741 with both the router and shaper spindles.??I have to mill? about 300 feet of 4 inch wide planks.? I've never done a job like this before and in particular I haven't used a tongue and groove cutter head before and am a bit concerned that I might be underestimating the difficulty and amount of work. Has anybody done this sort of thing?
Also I'm considering buying power feeder mainly for use on the jointer (planer). I don't do commercial work so productivity is not the issue, but of all the woodworking tools I use I find the jointer by far the scariest. So I'm hoping the power feeder might make this a bit easier and safer especially if I decide to mill all the T&G panelling. Is the power feeder suitable for use on the jointer? I find that using the jointer by hand is a bit of an art, you just can't feed it through anyhow unexpect a good result, so I'm uncertain that the power feeder will ?work properly with the jointer.
Any advice on the above would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Murray
