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Power Jointer. Is it worth it?

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Aerowerx

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I'm talking about one of these:
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$399 at Lowes

It has been quite a while since I have worked on my build, due to a major offensive by Real Life. Now, that it is getting too cold for epoxy I'm starting to think about it again.

My stock of Douglas Fir has a grain that is pretty close to perfect. But it is rough cut. I have a 12 inch power planer to smooth the top and bottom, but the problem is the edges.

I have a "manual" method of doing it with a router and straight edge on my build table, but that is a bit tedious. What I was wondering out is one of these jointers. With the manual method I can carefully line up the grain to be parallel to the straight edge (the tedious part) then use an edge trimmer with guide roller. Step 2 is to run it through my table saw with the just-trimmed edge against the fence. The jointer would be easier, but I would be afraid that the rough cut edge would result in some grain run-out---the edge would not be parallel to the grain.

Uh, did I just answer my own question:ermm:?
 
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