Hi All,

I recently purchased a used 8" jointer -- green Grizzly, dovetailed ways, levers instead of wheels. The tables are flat and coplanar, as best gauged by winding sticks and laying a Festool saw guide rail across the corners diagonally.

When I began looking at how the knives line up with the outfeed table, I see the side of the outfeed table that is closer to the fence is farther from the cutterhead (high) by a good bit (perhaps a little more than 1/16"). If I try to set the outfeed table so that it is just a hair lower than highest point of the knive's arc, a straightedge brushes against the round part of the cutter head at the side farthest from the fence.

Should I simply raise the outfeed table more and skew the knives so that they are higher closer to the fence? Is it possible that the cutterhead is misaligned? Is it that the tables are slanted up toward the fence and needs to be shimmed?

Thanks for your help!!

Gil