This is the Carbatec 8" industrial jointer. I bought this jointer second hand. It was a straight blade but the owner retrofitted a spiral head which made it identical the the CTJ-350X model. The jointer was still in pretty good conditionand had clearly not been used much. It had very little wear and was near new condition. One of the bits had to be rotated since it had a small nick.
The jointer has a 8" spiral head, not helical which is a small disadvantage since in theory it will not cut quite as clean in difficult grain. It has the 1.5 HP motor which can be felt when trying to joint wide harder wood boards. The bed length is excellent and can accommodate all but the longest of boards. For average woodworking it is well long enough. I managed to joint some 50x 200 x 2,000 mm boards using a material handing roller off the end of the jointer which is probably as big as you would want to go, maybe a little too big to be honest.
As it came the jointer was perfectly aligned with the beds exactly parallel and the head set correctly so I did not need to perform any adjustments. We used a truck with a lifter on it and we treated it as gently as we could. Being a parallel bed jointer the adjustments should be very precise and be stable but I have not had to adjust them yet. If you do remember that you have grub screws on top of grub screws. You need to remove the grub screws completely to reveal the inner grub screws. This is not in the manual.
It comes with castors standard. You depress a pedal to lift it onto the castors then flip the pedal back to lower it onto the stop. It is nice and stable when lowered but the fall is somewhat severe and does not feel comfortable. However when lifted it moves quite easily so is easy to move around.
In service it produces a very clean almost finish ready surface on straight grain wood and even slightly difficult hard wood. However on softwoods like pine where you have reversing grain I have noticed some tear out but that is to be expected.
I have several minor niggles. The first is that the fence is a right royal pain to set at exactly 90 deg. It has a 90 and 45 indent but when I used the 90 indent there was a small amount of light under my square which makes it annoyingly out of flat when doing panel glueups. One could reverse joint opposite faces but one would like 90 deg to actually be 90 deg. Second the fence does not quite go to the end of the head. This means that it will not joint the full 8", it is about 1/4"-3/16" short. Finally the dust extraction is not really efficient. Others have modded the under cabinet metalwork to make extraction better. You cannot run it without extraction since the shavings will not clear by themselves and it does make a lot of shavings. I have an old Jet portable single bag unit powered by a 1.5 HP motor which clears the shavings but does leave a small amount in the bottom. The manual is rubbish. If you go the the Grizzly site you can download the full manual.
Overall this unit is very good value for money if you are buying new but I got it at a very good price. This is an example of you get exactly what you get. It is an excellent choice for the hobbyist like me and gives excellent results. You cannot do really heavy cuts but that is not an issue for me.
Pros
Cons
In conclusion although this is advertised as an industrial jointer I would shell out the extra $1k or so for a high end jointer if I was a professional. However is is perfectly fine for the weekend wood worker and for a spiral head parallelogram jointer excellent value for money.
The jointer has a 8" spiral head, not helical which is a small disadvantage since in theory it will not cut quite as clean in difficult grain. It has the 1.5 HP motor which can be felt when trying to joint wide harder wood boards. The bed length is excellent and can accommodate all but the longest of boards. For average woodworking it is well long enough. I managed to joint some 50x 200 x 2,000 mm boards using a material handing roller off the end of the jointer which is probably as big as you would want to go, maybe a little too big to be honest.
As it came the jointer was perfectly aligned with the beds exactly parallel and the head set correctly so I did not need to perform any adjustments. We used a truck with a lifter on it and we treated it as gently as we could. Being a parallel bed jointer the adjustments should be very precise and be stable but I have not had to adjust them yet. If you do remember that you have grub screws on top of grub screws. You need to remove the grub screws completely to reveal the inner grub screws. This is not in the manual.
It comes with castors standard. You depress a pedal to lift it onto the castors then flip the pedal back to lower it onto the stop. It is nice and stable when lowered but the fall is somewhat severe and does not feel comfortable. However when lifted it moves quite easily so is easy to move around.
In service it produces a very clean almost finish ready surface on straight grain wood and even slightly difficult hard wood. However on softwoods like pine where you have reversing grain I have noticed some tear out but that is to be expected.
I have several minor niggles. The first is that the fence is a right royal pain to set at exactly 90 deg. It has a 90 and 45 indent but when I used the 90 indent there was a small amount of light under my square which makes it annoyingly out of flat when doing panel glueups. One could reverse joint opposite faces but one would like 90 deg to actually be 90 deg. Second the fence does not quite go to the end of the head. This means that it will not joint the full 8", it is about 1/4"-3/16" short. Finally the dust extraction is not really efficient. Others have modded the under cabinet metalwork to make extraction better. You cannot run it without extraction since the shavings will not clear by themselves and it does make a lot of shavings. I have an old Jet portable single bag unit powered by a 1.5 HP motor which clears the shavings but does leave a small amount in the bottom. The manual is rubbish. If you go the the Grizzly site you can download the full manual.
Overall this unit is very good value for money if you are buying new but I got it at a very good price. This is an example of you get exactly what you get. It is an excellent choice for the hobbyist like me and gives excellent results. You cannot do really heavy cuts but that is not an issue for me.
Pros
- Good value for money
- Bits last a very long time unless you chip them (get a metal detector if using used timber)
- Sufficient power for light cuts on the hardest wood
- Good long bed
- Portable
- Only need a 10A circuit
- Dust extraction built in
- Parallelogram beds
Cons
- Manual is rubbish
- Cannot get the full width of the head
- the 90 deg stop is not 90 deg
- Dust extraction is not perfect
- Fence angle adjustment is extremely sensitive
In conclusion although this is advertised as an industrial jointer I would shell out the extra $1k or so for a high end jointer if I was a professional. However is is perfectly fine for the weekend wood worker and for a spiral head parallelogram jointer excellent value for money.
Carbatec 8" industrial Jointer CTJ-350X
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