In the true fashion of "captain overkill" I decided I needed a jointer. Stock is hard to come by for reasonable prices around here but I can get pretty good deals on S2S or rough stock... so anyway, I scoured craigslist for 3-4 months but never found anything reasonable. I wanted a decent 6" jointer but then gave up.
So naturally for my first jointer, I figured I was happy with my "bigger is better" mentality with my unisaw (I debated whether to get a cabinet saw or a contractor's saw...) and so the 8" grizzly G0490 fit the bill. I'm excited, especially since I've been trying to "get by" by face jointing stock using a portable planer (which is a lot of work to use a sled with).
So, hopefully this thing doesn't suck. I don't have any excellent tools to critique the flatness of the beds or the squareness of the fence, so grizzly can really fleece me with some beat up jointer if they wanted to, i guess.