WEN JT833H 10-Amp 8-Inch Spiral Benchtop Jointer with Extendable Table

This Cutech Jointer is a great reminder that there is a real difference in engineering and manufacturing quality between items coming from Taiwan and those from mainland China. This is a not a knock off or clone of something else, but rather the original that others re-badge. It arrives very well packaged, a good thing as it weighs in at around 100 lbs. Engineered card edge boards surround custom fit foam to keep everything well protected. The documentation is in decent English and easy to follow. Opening the plastic bag surrounding the jointer will have you reaching for shop cloths, as the entire unit is liberally protected with machine oil to guard against rust. Keep track of the fence enhancement pieces and the fence rails as you unbox things. It's well designed and assembled: there are no sharp or exposed edges to the metal work, the cast iron tables are perfectly machined, and the powder coat/paint is perfect. There's not a lot to assembly, just attaching the sliding fence rails and the fence itself. I bought the cast iron fence and so didn't install the supplied fence. The fence support enhancements are simple enough to install, and reflect a manufacturer who listens to customer feedback and acts upon it - earlier models did not have these additional supports and the fence stability was questioned a little because of it. Once assembled the fence was at a perfect 90 to the bed right from the box, no adjustment needed. I ran a 2x6 through both on edge and on it's face, the jointer is quieter than my dust collection and the finish perfectly smooth. Depth of cut adjustment is very straightforward, and locks confidently in place. Early days yet, but first impressions are overwhelmingly positive. I'd gladly buy Cutech again.

I bought this jointer a few years ago. I used to true up my stock by hand (winding sticks, scrub plane/jointer plane/smoothing plane). Larger projects got to be tiring. I needed a compact jointer that I could fix to a mobile cart for my small shop. I wanted the jointer to accommodate 8” stock, and I didn’t want to spend a fortune. I took a chance on the Wen and although it feels and looks unserious, it performs beautifully. I got the fence perfectly 90° to the table and it has stayed true the entire time of pretty regular use in the evenings and on weekends. I’ve replaced the blades once upgrading from the stock hss blades to carbide. I’ve probably processed 2000 bdft blades with this machine, mostly cherry, maple and white oak. For the price it has exceeded my expectations. The shortfalls that can’t be blamed considering the price point are the plastic knobs, the wonky table height mechanism that works fine but feels cheap, and the extension in and outfeed supports that work adequately but do a B- job of work support. All in all however this is a five star product for delivering reliable functionality for an inexpensive machine. I’d say this was one of the most unexpectedly positive purchases I’ve made. I highly recommend this jointer.

Great machine! It does what’s suppose todo on resurfacing wood and truing edges. It does have to be mounted to a bench or table with Lag bolts. Quiet running machine. Haven’t had change the the inserts yet. I take lite cuts to clean up the surface of the wood. It is a sample design using aluminum for the table. It weighs is a little on lite side. But power of the motor is more than sufficient to gets good finish on about any wood. The push paddles that come with the machine are needed to operate your joi tee safely. Use them if you want to keep all your fingers. The paddles are needed to push the wood across the table without endangering your hands or fingers.

After reading a lot of reviews I purchased this 8" jointer for my home shop primarily based on the reviews and the fact that it is priced more like many of the 6" jointers. I find the additional 2 inches of width to be very handy. The tables are cast iron while many of the competitors are aluminum. It arrived in good condition. A considerable amount of care was given to designing the packaging. The unit was in Styrofoam and double boxed with sturdy corner reinforcement for both boxes. As it came from the factory the tables were very well aligned. Being somewhat of a perfectionist I did make a very small adjustment to the infeed table. I was surprised that a jointer with a spiral cutter was so reasonable priced but here is why: When I read spiral cutterhead I think of carbide blades that can be rotated to provide 4 cutting edges as they wear. This unit does not have carbide cutters. Instead, it has steel cutters that have only 2 cutting edges. I'n not sure why this is any advantage over straight blades since I would expect wear to be similar or, in fact, maybe worse than a 2 or 3 cutter unit with straight blades. I suspect it may wear somewhat faster because the blades are arranged around the cutterhead so that any given point on the piece being fed will have a cutter pass by only once per revolution of the cutterhead. For this reason a somewhat slower feed rate is needed to produce the finish quality of a 2 or 3 blade cutter or spiral carbide cutter. Of course the blades will be far less expensive to replace and I found the finish quality of the boards I tried to be quite good. The manual supplied is mostly adequate. It covers both the 6" and 8" model. There are some inconsistencies and errors of omission. For example, the inside of the front page lists the part number for the replacement cutters. The same part number is used for both jointers even though the 6" version has 12 cutters and the 8" has 16 cutters. Maybe you get 4 extra ones if you have the 6" version. While the reference on the first page is nice they might also have included other replacement parts such as the motor springs and brushes. You'll have to refer to the parts list for these. The most serious omission is that there is no information as to how to adjust the extension arms which are present only on the 8" model. These were not well adjusted from the factory and took some work to figure out how to fix them. The screws on the end of the arms are loosened to adjust the extension tubes laterally so they slide in and out of the table easily. On the underside of the end tube there are set screws which you loosen so you can rotate the collar to adjust the tube up and down. I am pleased with the quality of the unit. it is well built and makes nice clean cuts as long as you don't try to feed it too fast or take too large of a cut. For a home shop unit I think it is quite good.

Hasta ahora ha trabajado muy bien, siento que los dientes se maltratan rápido con maderas duras, pero en teoría se pueden girar para usar el filo de los otros tres lados, no lo he hecho, no ha Sido necesario aún. Las extensiones ayudan bastante para la manipulación de piezas grandes como tablas completas de 2.5m, pero ojo, son auxiliares, no coinciden exactamente con el nivel de la mesa. Elegí está opción, a pesar de que había otras opciones el el mercado a precios similar de 6" estacionarias, por su tamaño, la tengo en una mesa con rodajas para poderla mover. Es muy práctica. Sin embargo para un taller más grande no la recomiendo tanto, solo como herramienta auxiliar y para llevarla a instalaciones fuera del taller.

Product came well packed and felt very solid. unfortunately when ordering i did not realize it was 110v and i require 240v so i had to send it back. hope there is a 240v version.

Buena máquina útil para trabajar madera.

llego en doble caja muy buen protegida. es de aluminio y sus barras laterales son de adorno, no están alineadas y no tiene ajuste. trabaja con menos ruido pero la madera la tienes que pasar lento, muy lento