Grizzly G0452 6" Jointer Reviews

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Grizzly G0452 6" Jointer Product reviews

Grizzly G0452 6" Jointer Review by Dustin G. Haugh (Pocatello, ID)

I own a small cabinet shop and this jointer is more than adequate for the job. Even with 1hp it does just fine. Grizzly is the way to go. I just need to hear from someone about their shapers. I can't find any recent reviews for them.

Grizzly G0452 6" Jointer Review by STOAK "soffak" (Anchorage, AK United States)

In the woodworking circles I run it this and all Grizzly jointers seem to get a lot of praise. Customer service likewise. They are people I respect so I suspect that I got a lemon and have had bad luck with Grizzly in general. The Z-system on mine is horrible and months of working on it have not helped. The bed had a nice little dip in it and board of certain lengths and widths will not joint well. Aligning knives with the read bed is such a nightmare using the Grizzly system that I tossed that after a couple of new blades. Any adjustment that requires accuracy with my rear bed is such a nightmare that I made a jig to align the blades to the rear bed rather than the bed to the blades. This is also problematic as the bed can be adjusted to high for blade alignment (the blade will hit the bed). The endgame is that this jointer is being sold and will not be replaced by the same one although I am tempted by the grizzly 8" jointer with all the great reviews they are getting. Think I will go with Powermatic after my experience though.

Grizzly G0452 6" Jointer Review by D. Duffey

I made the 200 mile drive to the Springfield, MO showroom to pick up the jointer. After reading about too many buyers with minor damage to the base from UPS shipments, I elected to go ahead, and make the 3-hour drive. The base was well-packed, and was in ding-free condition. Assembly was pretty straight forward. Once that was completed, I began the cleanup. Other reviews had mentioned everything being coated with cosmoline in super-heavy fashion. With that in mind, I bought an aerosol can of Orange Power degreaser at Grizzly. It wasn't necessary. If you carefully scrape off the excess cosmoline with a putty knife, a small amount that remains can be cleaned off with some mineral spirits.

I am somewhat disappointed in the flatness of the bed and fence. The outfeed table had a dip in the center of about .05mm (.02") that was about 6" long. The fence was twisted where the best I could do was to have a .05mm space at the top of the fence at the far end on the infeed table, and the same on the bottom of the outfeed table at the far end. I never had either of these problems with my old 6" Delta open base jointer. Of course, it was made here in the USA, Mississippi, I think, not China.

I'm also disappointed in the smoothness, or lack of it, in moving the infeed table. The Delta was pretty smooth. The Grizzly takes some effort to get it to move using the handle. When it does, it moves more than I wanted it to, and I have to work with it to get it to my liking. Hopefully it will get better the more I use it.

I checked the position of the knives, and they were set too high. I used a dial gauge, and reset the knives to the same height as the bed. From experience with the Delta, I learned to set the knives .02" low because they raise to zero out when you tighten things up. The test edge joints were glass smooth. I hope the blades hold up for awhile.

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