Wood magazine 8" jointer article

[Russ Massery]

I was looking at Wood magazines Article on 8" jointers. There Top tool was the Powermatic 60B (stock# 1610077k) @$1200.00. But after looking at the Powermatic web site. The unit that they tested and deem the best looks more like there PJ882 (stock #1610080) parallelogram jointer @ appox. @1600.00. The only difference is the one in the pic has the power switch up on a pedestal. What gives?

[Doug Jones]

The picture in the mag and the one on the web site are two totally different machines at least in appearance.
Good eye Russ.

[JayStPeter]

Yep, they blew that one. I believe the even tested the more expensive machine. I saw a quote posted by one of the editors somewhere where he admitted the mistake.

Jay

[Frank Eppler]

According to a Wood Mag person on another site, they will clear up their mistake in the next issue. They pictured and tested the $1600 jointer and not the 60B they said it was. Will be interesting to see them explain what happined.
Frank

[Doug Jones]

Wood forum had this to say from a staff member.

"The error in the model number and price of the Powermatic jointer we tested is inexcusable, and we regret it. A correction will run in the next issue.

In fact, we did test the PJ-882 jointer with a street price of around $1,650. All of the test results in the article and chart information pertain to that model."

[CPeter James]

I'll bet that there were a lot of disappointed people thinking they were going to get a PM jointer for $1200. I thought that it looked too good to be true.

CPeter