Grizzly 8" Jointer Model G0586

I have been in the market for an 8 inch jointer for a couple years, however when grizzly introduced the G0586 my eyes lit up. Price mainly but also features that made it very attractive, so this year was my time to buy a new tool. I ordered the jointer on the 16 th of November and received an email from grizzly that it shipped on the 21 st via overnight trucking. Well it showed up in front of my house on the 29 th , the jointer came in two crates the base in one and the jointer itself in another Total weight is 536 pounds.

The base was probably 100 or so pounds and came off the truck fairly easy the truck driver and myself lowered the larger crate down to the ground and laid it on a couple of furniture dollies. The driver asked where it was going and I told him into the basement shop via the stairs he says ok let me get my gloves now that was a shocker I did not expect him to want to help.

So we wheel it over to the side door and huffed and puffed until we got it on the landing then slid it down. Where we repositioned it back on the dollies and I wheeled it into the shop, thanking him repeatedly and a few shakes of the hand he was on his way NOW THAT IS SERVICE!

The two crates did not show any kind of rough abuse so my hopes where high that every thing was in tact after being shipped across the world.

The base

I opened the small crate first and saw the almond colored base wrapped in a plastic bag, removing the base and inspecting it looked perfect. Inside was the premounted motor, the starter, on off push button control arm with its pretty red power light and a few boxes of parts.

The jointer

Onto the larger crate after prying off the top and bending over a gazillion staples, I found the jointer wrapped in what appears to be a four mil. Plastic bag. I have to say the jointer as well as the base where packaged very well in sturdy containers.

The bed of the jointer looked fantastic and long seventy-five inches long compared to my six-inch jointer this thing looked like, well an aircraft carrier was my first reaction. Looking at the fence it also looked in pristine shape so now that I could relax a little I decided to turn my attention back to the base.

I set the base in its new location leaving enough room for me to gain access to the back door, and then I unwrapped the push button support arm and removed the starter from its box. The starter is prewired to the pushbuttons and there are two pigtails leaving the starter, one is the motor lead and the other is the power cord. The power cord does not come with a cord cap, mounting the pushbutton control arm was fairly easy with four bolts and the starter went on the same way. Wiring the motor was clearly identified; this comes set up to run on 220 volts so that was good since that was my plan any way

I decided that I wanted to make sure everything was working fine to this point so I installed a 15-amp 250-volt cord cap and plugged it in. NO power light. Hhmmm to myself reaching over and twisting the red stop button and it popped out and the light came on. Now this is a great feature a self locking stop button I felt more impressed with this machine, pressing the start button the motor fired right up and sounded smooth so with a smile I turned it off and decided to finish unpacking the jointer.

First, I removed the fence assembly, pretty darn heavy on its own. Now I wish I could say I grabbed the jointer and set it on the base but hey I'm only so strong, first I asked my 13 year old to give it a try and he could barely lift one end so I went and found my eighteen year old and had him help. We lifted the jointer on to the base and I positioned it over the mounting holes and installed the three long shafted bolts the picture below shows the jointer at this point with the crate in front.

Here is another view.

At this point, I installed the cheap fan belts with the intention of replacing them with a better grade or link belt in the future, after setting the tension I started it up again and it ran very smooth. Note I set the jointer on some one-inch thick rubber that I had to keep any rattles down from the metal contacting the cement floor.

You can also see that the crate is lined with a tarpaper like material to help keep out water and moisture; this is where I broke down the crate and took it out side. After completing that task, it was time to degrease the tables and fence. With a rag and some mineral spirits, it cleaned up very well. Installing the fence went easy enough, opening another box I found the hand wheels which where mounted promptly. Now I checked the beds with a straight edge and found them to be flat the out feed table was dead on with the knives, loosening the gib locks and lowering the in feed table down to its max of ½ inch then back up to a 1/32 was a smooth action.

Opening another box I found the knife guard and that went on pretty easy except I noticed that when letting it go from fully open it clinks against the fence, ill have to add a piece of foam at that point to keep it from marring the fence.

Opening the last box I found the dust chute, push blocks and OH! The instruction manual I guess I should have looked at that first oh well. I leafed thru it and did not see anything I did not all ready know except that it is well written and plenty of pictures.

My test cut was a piece of quarter-sawn white oak about three feet long and the cut was great with no snipe.

So here, it is all prettied up with a fresh coat of topcoat.