Board Tolerance After Face Jointing

Sounds more like a pressing problem than a blade/table. Those kind make
tapers or snipes.

I only guide on the infeed table, pushing down and through on the out when
taking a full pass. To allow for the possibility of outfeed droop, which
might produce what you have, I feed stepwise within a foot after the knives.

To clear up concavity of a minor nature, start jointing near one end (13-1/4
of length) to flatten, before running full length. In this case, hold down
to reference infeed. If the concavity's bad, joint one end, then the other
until it looks close, then full length.

"Mike Granby" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I've just run a 4' x 6" x 4/4 walnut board over my new (and first)
> jointer, and I seem to be having trouble getting the board's face
> completely flat. There's still a very slight concavity, rising to a
> height of about 1/64" in the center. I'm concerned that the curve
> might be caused by either (a) despite trying to have a very light
> touch, applying too much pressure during jointing, thus flattening out
> the natural concavity so that the jointer can't correct it; or (b)
> having the knives too high relative to the outfeed table. Before I
> investigate these matters further, am I wasting my time trying to get
> rid of this amount of curvature? Is a tolerance of, say, within 0.008"
> a reasonable level to shoot for?