Jointing is done to smooth out and straighten a single surface of a board. Once you have a single straight surface you can straighten out the other sides to create a near perfect board.
![Art168: Milling/Jointer Demo](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1051/3267695728_9a5eceeefc.jpg)
Make sure before you run your wood through the jointer to find the direction of the grain and cut along that direction to prevent tearing up your wood.
![Art168: Milling/Jointer Demo](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/3266871877_98c3b661b3.jpg)
When pushing your wood through the jointer provide lateral force to keep the wood moving along the jointer blades evenly.
![Art168: Milling/Jointer Demo](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/3267695748_3e51cba35f.jpg)
The jointer will only ever take a small portion of the surface off so you'll have to run your piece through several times to provide a clean smooth surface
![Art168: Milling/Jointer Demo](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1315/3267695804_d044d382bf.jpg)
Once done jointing the first surface of your board to the point where its smooth, joint a edge using the smoothed as a guide surface to provide you with a perfect 90° edge.
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