Steel City 6” Jointer With Granite Fence
By Paul Lapczynski
Steel City continues to flood us with granite tools, this time in the form of their 40615G jointer, a 317-lb beast that combines the traditional steel bed with a granite fence. Its 68”-long bed will make jointing those long boards easy work.
The three blades spin up to 5,000 RPM, and the cutting capacity is 6-1/8” with up to a 1/2″ cut, if you’re brave or foolish enough to try it. The 4″ by 38” granite fence has stops at 90 and 45 degrees inside and out. The 1-1/2 HP jointer is wired for 115 volts from the factory, but can be rewired to 220 volts. It comes with a chute/port and all the tools needed to maintain the jointer.
The 40615G sells for about $600.
40615G [Steel City]
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February 24th, 2009 at 11:11 am
This size tool may be OK for a home shop - but I’d spring for at least an 8 inch machine to allow you to face the board.
February 24th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Granite seems nice until you realize that you can’t use all your magnetic fences, hold-downs, etc.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I was wondering if anybody can give me a price for a set of Groz Engineer’s Precision Squares. It is the set with the 2″ the 4″ and the 6″ squares. Any help?
February 24th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Ben - I searched for the Groz stuff for a while, ended up with a corporate site in India. Couldn’t find any vendors in the US though - try the contact section there at your own risk, any vendor that doesn’t have it’s own name in the site is questionable to me.
http://0168a51.netsolhost.com/
Paul
February 24th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I got mine from Highland Hardware a few years ago.
They came in a wooden box. They no longer sell (at least I couldn’t find it) the sets. the prices are:
2″ 10.00
4″ 14.00
6″ 16.00
I think I paid about $30.00 for the set.
I also got the 9″ square.
They are accurate enough for WW and just about anything below rocket ship construction.
Stan
February 24th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I looked at the website and didn’t get a convincing reason why a granite fence is superior. I DID find out that “Steel City” is Murfreesboro, Tennessee, though. Holy crap did I have that wrong my whole life. I bet “Title Town U.S.A.” is not Green Bay, but the town where the DMV is for my county!
February 25th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Not sure if it’s because of the price of iron or the gizmocity of granite, but a lot of machines are starting to be offered with granite fences and tables. I think Ryobi even has a table saw with a granite top now. I’ll stick with Meehanite cast iron.