Bought it .Kity Jointer

I guess no one else has used one before either.

I’ll take a look at it and just decide from that.

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

Kity makes some nice machines. Parts will be costly or
not possible to get.

The machine is a jointer/planer. Looks like it has a mortising
chuck but no mortiser table. You can get one from Laguna
Tools and adapt it to fit.

The machine appears to be missing it’s fence. You can retrofit
a fence from a Robland or fabricate one yourself – not hard to
do at all.

-- http://amherstcabinets.com - also a marketing consultant with expertise in direct response marketing for woodworking and online business building

Loren,

Thanks for the comments. I’d appreciate any more help you could give since I now own the jointer.

You are correct, it is a planer jointer, the machine was purchased without the planer parts installed. I was told all of the parts to make the planer work were purchased later and are included. That I haven’t look through too much yet.

The jointer portion itself is in excellent condition and works great (had to try it out last night).

The fence is missing. I think I’ll attempt making one myself. I’d love to know what it originally looked like to get some ideas. Hopefully I can get a manual for it.

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

A jointer fence just has to be straight and hold a 90 degree
setting. That’s mostly what you will use it for.

I made a tilting fence for an old jointer I had that
had a missing fence. It worked fine. I got the idea
from the old Fine Woodworking article about how to
build a wooden 8” jointer, written in the 1970s.

You can get straight aluminum extrusions from 80-20.
There are a couple of guys on Ebay that sell
overstock of the extrusions cheaply. Just watch
Ebay and you’ll see something useful eventually.

In a pinch you can just copy/adapt the various do-it-yourself
router table fences out there. I made one for my
router table years ago and never felt compelled to
buy a fence because mine worked so well… though it’s
sort of ugly.

-- http://amherstcabinets.com - also a marketing consultant with expertise in direct response marketing for woodworking and online business building

Look for pictures of the Kity 2600. The fence
on that machine isn’t anything special at all.

With a big jointer cutterhead make sure you have
a guard for the back of the cutterhead, too. Center-
mount fences for these European jointers always
have one.

-- http://amherstcabinets.com - also a marketing consultant with expertise in direct response marketing for woodworking and online business building