If your workshop doesn't have a jointer to square up an edge or your wood piece is too large to fit through, you can use your planer to flatten both pieces of wood.

Jointers are expensive, and they take up a lot of space. But there are two ways to joint wood without a jointer, including making your own jointer sled.

A benchtop planer is the lightest type of jointer (other than a masonry jointer, a completely different tool), but even some of these can weigh upward of 60 pounds.

Pro Tip: Before you build 2 x 4 projects: Run your wood stock through a jointer and a planer if you have one, to make sure your boards are flat and square.

A jointer is used to make a board perfectly flat and will remove warps and twists in the board. So you’d run rough lumber through a jointer first, and then a use a planer to get the board to a ...

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