For a long time like many of you, I couldn’t afford a jointer for my home shop. Eventually I was able to buy one, yet for many years before that I had used my router as a jointer. There are many times when your jointer just won’t do the job that a router can do on jointed edges.
The router is a very easy tool to set up and use for jointing edges and in these next steps I will take you through the process of jointing boards with your router.