After cutting wood pieces into small sizes, you should run them through the jointer before feeding them to your planer or table saw.Both are different types of wood surfacing machines. You screw the machine down by its base into your worktable to give it extra stability and prevent excessive vibrations.
There are too many Benchtop jointer products on the market, bit from our top best five benchtop jointers, Porter Cable Jointer is our best pick when it comes to features and performance. Since you were reviewing “benchtop jointers”, why didn’t you review (or at least say something about) Cutech’s 8″ jointers (the 40180H-CT with the “spiralish cutterheads & roller extensions @ $449.99 at Amazon) or their newer 40180HCB-CT (same, but adds teflon-coated tables @$469.99 at Cutech’s site)? The base also makes these jointers among the safest options out there.