These are really helpful reference books that you will regularly refer to. This series of books are excellent reference books for your shop library. The opening pages of the Jointer book show the anatomy of generic Jointers and continues on with the tool basics that many of us might have forgotten. This supposition is the 'raison d'etre' of the Skills Institute Press book series. The Jointer book however also includes another important woodshop tool, the thickness planer which is a bonus but one would think that this fact should be featured on the cover. Adjusting and aligning of the tool are featured as well as some neat tips on tapering, rabbets and chamfers. Chapter four deals with the Thickness Planer and illustrates its basic uses. Pages 58 and 59 give the woodworker tips on how to plane both short and very thin pieces. It is always of the utmost importance to keep the jointer and planer knives ultra sharpo and the final pages of this book show you how.