Does anyone know if the Ridgid 6 1/8 Jointer/Planer has been discontinued? On their website, they show a link to buy it, but it goes to a dead page at Home Depot, and HD doesn't seem to carry it anymore. Is it still available anywhere?
Good idea. I just sent TTI an inquiry. I'll report back if they respond to me.You could ask TTI when they will be making them, or who else sells the same tool under a different brand.
- tvrgeek
I have used this method for a while now with a DW735. I have found that I can get boards pretty flat, but not as flat as I'd like. So, I'd say it depends on what your flatness requirements are. It may be possible to achieve a better result with a larger floor-standing planer.I am curious as well…without a jointer and using a sled and thickness planer to flatten.
- BigMig
Good points. Earlier I only discussed my dissatisfaction of the final result with a planer sled, but the tediousness of shimming each board adequately gets old really fast. Also, a sled that can handle boards over about 4 feet long starts to get really cumbersome. So you're essentially limited to board lengths a benchtop jointer could handle.Jointing with a planer will depend about 99% on the accuracy of the sled you use, and how well you shim out each individual piece of wood. As you ve found it is doable, but not a perfect result. A jointer ignores the low spot, and just removes high spots until it s either flat, or the board is gone.
I've been searching for a used 6" floor standing jointer in the Cincinnati/Dayton area for the past few weeks now and it's been really tough to find anything decent that's somewhat fairly priced.Wasn t long ago there were many lower priced jointers. They are disappearing, and now with the rise in used tool sales, gone.
Seems jointers have become small space tools, most of the growth is on benchtop models the last few years. Not sure about availability?
That's good to know. I had been eyeballing one of these for awhile. If I get my usual Home Depot gift cards at Christmas this year I will be ordering one. Assuming they are in stock. Until then I will still be prepping 2 sides with hand planes.I had a bench top and had enough of. The short table and not great results. Went with the Ridgid put it together got the fence right turned it on and ran a few test pjeces. It works well
- corelz125
Between logistics issues raising shipping costs and seemingly global price increases on all raw materials prices are going up. Home Depot may have raised the price higher than needed to maintain the same margins but if the item is continuously selling out they can. My own sales from the COVID lockdown era tells me A LOT of folks picked up wood working as a hobby. I couldn't turn out enough #4 and #5 size planes to keep up with demand. Even with a price increase I never had a plane sit for longer than 3 days before it was sold.Product sold out. Waiting list. Supply issues. Now back in stock and people lined up to buy them. Price increase? This is called "supply and demand" Now if you think it is overpriced, buy a different brand, If you are right, they will have excess and put them on sale. If you are wrong and the market supports the price, well there you have it. Maybe you prefer the Jet @ $1100.
- tvrgeek
I am absolutely livid, having purchased Ridgid products for years. On June 16, 2021, I purchased the Model JP06101 Joiner / Planar from Home Depot. A little over two months ago. My first thought was to order parts that will fail such as the belt.
The belt has been discontinued and is not available and finally after scouring the Web I located a replacement on Amazon. On a side note I have an email from Ridgid telling me that it is on backorder. This morning after seeing on the Web that it is discontinued I called Ridgid Tech Support and was told it is in fact discontinued and not available.
If you want to order one or more the Part # is 817393-7 (IC BELT V A-36). Enter that Part Number at Amazon and it will pop up.
Everyone always wants to "Write the President of the Company". Fact is when mail comes through addressed to him it is almost always routed to the rank and file in Customer Service who will send you a letter that simply states the Party Line.
Prior to retiring I was in IT for 40+ years. Several of those were spent supporting the entire Executive Team from the VP s, SVP s, CFO, all the way up to a $59M/yr CEO & President as well as thirty members on the Board of Directors. If you are serious about getting a letter directly to a CEO, CFO, President without it being rerouted to Customer Service here is what you need to do:
Compose your letter in a professional manner; leaving out any and all vulgarity and personal attacks, character assassination, etc.. Express you anger, tell him / her that you ve put all of your Ridgid product on Craigslist or eBay (or just tossed it) and explained in your posting(s) why you re virtually giving it away. Tell him / her how many years you ve been woodworking, buying their product, etc.
If you want to embellish, tell him / her you returned to Home Depot the $1,600.00 of Ridgid product you bought last week. Remember, a CFO and CEO only understand one thing: Red Ink is bad, Black ink is good.
So how do we get this letter to the personal and direct attention of a CFO or CEO and President?
USPS Restricted Delivery Mail. Under Federal Law mail sent via Restricted Delivery Mail may only be signed for by the Addressee, with rare exceptions. It may be sent to Legal who will contact the CEO and ask permission to open and read it. 99.9% of the time the answer will be "No" as they do not know if it is of a personal nature. The unopened letter will be brought up to him or her.
The CEO may have delegated his Executive Admin to sign for the letter but not open it for the same reason: it may be of a personal nature. Could be from his Wife telling him she wants a divorce, Blackmail, someone found out he has a boyfriend, did prison time from 18 - 22 and had the records sealed, etc.
All that said, he / she will take personal and direct delivery of your letter. Recall that I supported the systems of the Executives and Board of Directors in my Career. Recall the CEO earning $59,000,000.00/year, which breaks down to $28,365.38 per hour on a forty hour week (granted, he easily put in sixty hours a week). His home is next to Tom Brady s.
Can you imagine the anger that CEO felt at having to sign for what amounted to a letter of complaint when he had an 85,000 person corporation to run? NOT HAPPY.
Mail sent via USPS Restricted Delivery is not inexpensive at $10.02 (last I knew) but powerful. How powerful?
In 2004 before Porter Cable was sold to PentAir I sent a scathing letter to the President of Porter Cable. A week later on a Saturday at 1400 HRS US EST (I still remember the day and time) I received a phone call from their CFO who was calling on behalf of the President. He apologized that he could not help me immediately as he was in Maui on vacation with his family. He further explained that he was leaving that night and asked me if I had a copy of their 2004 - 2005 Catalog. I did and told him that. He told me to pick out whatever I wanted, regardless of cost or quantity. He asked me to write down the part numbers and quantities and that at exactly 0900 HRS US EST I would receive a call from his Executive Admin to take my order on Monday. She called at exactly 0900.
My order came to just over $7,000.00 USD and included two of their most expensive Dovetail Jigs. Downside was I had to file it with my State and Federal Taxes.
So if you re serious, take my advice.
Ridgid is owned by Emerson Electric. Direct your Restricted Delivery letter to:
Mr. Lal Karsanbhai
Chief Executive Officer and President
Emerson US and World Headquarters
Emerson Electric Co.
8000 West Florissant Avenue, P.O. Box 4100,
St. Louis , MO 63136
Best,
Lyman
- LGLDSR73
Lyman, that s an interesting tip on using restricted mail to try to reach the CEO, and might be effective in some cases. It certainly gives you a chance to reach the recipient, rather than feel like you re yelling into the void. I do however think your example of of successfully implementing this approach seems like it s more likely an outlier. I honestly don t think the Ridgid parent company cares much what a single or even handfull of woodworkers think about a single product in a very crowded market, and I doubt they d be likely to fork over thousands of dollars to one or more disgruntled woodworkers for a few letters that reached their desk. I work for a very large corporation, and even if our CEOs admin didn t intercept the letter, I highly doubt our CEO would do more than read the first line or 2 of the letter before promptly tossing it and moving on with his very busy day. I can also guarantee that there is 0 chance that our CFO would ever call any customer directly to admit fault or offer some kind of compensation. There s no transparency or accountability to direct letters. They have no penalty for ignoring the letters. No one but the sender knows that it s been sent.
In the current world of twitter, he d be much more likely to respond to some coordinated tweets, rather than direct letters, but even at that, it would have to be a trending topic for him to really care, and even at that, direct payments to the ones tweeting? I just can t imagine it.
I too am disappointed that they discontinued this model, but let s face it. It s not the world s greatest jointer, was not the world s best selling unit, and there are many similar alternatives in the same price-ballpark. I also have a feeling that this same design (or very similar) will start to show up from other Asian vendors before too long now that it s discontinued.
I just don t think the company will really get too interested in the response from our community after announcing its demise.
That s just my 2c.
I am absolutely livid, having purchased Ridgid products for years. On June 16, 2021, I purchased the Model JP06101 Joiner / Planar from Home Depot. A little over two months ago. My first thought was to order parts that will fail such as the belt.
The belt has been discontinued and is not available and finally after scouring the Web I located a replacement on Amazon. On a side note I have an email from Ridgid telling me that it is on backorder. This morning after seeing on the Web that it is discontinued I called Ridgid Tech Support and was told it is in fact discontinued and not available.
If you want to order one or more the Part # is 817393-7 (IC BELT V A-36). Enter that Part Number at Amazon and it will pop up.
Everyone always wants to "Write the President of the Company". Fact is when mail comes through addressed to him it is almost always routed to the rank and file in Customer Service who will send you a letter that simply states the Party Line.
Prior to retiring I was in IT for 40+ years. Several of those were spent supporting the entire Executive Team from the VP s, SVP s, CFO, all the way up to a $59M/yr CEO & President as well as thirty members on the Board of Directors. If you are serious about getting a letter directly to a CEO, CFO, President without it being rerouted to Customer Service here is what you need to do:
Compose your letter in a professional manner; leaving out any and all vulgarity and personal attacks, character assassination, etc.. Express you anger, tell him / her that you ve put all of your Ridgid product on Craigslist or eBay (or just tossed it) and explained in your posting(s) why you re virtually giving it away. Tell him / her how many years you ve been woodworking, buying their product, etc.
If you want to embellish, tell him / her you returned to Home Depot the $1,600.00 of Ridgid product you bought last week. Remember, a CFO and CEO only understand one thing: Red Ink is bad, Black ink is good.
So how do we get this letter to the personal and direct attention of a CFO or CEO and President?
USPS Restricted Delivery Mail. Under Federal Law mail sent via Restricted Delivery Mail may only be signed for by the Addressee, with rare exceptions. It may be sent to Legal who will contact the CEO and ask permission to open and read it. 99.9% of the time the answer will be "No" as they do not know if it is of a personal nature. The unopened letter will be brought up to him or her.
The CEO may have delegated his Executive Admin to sign for the letter but not open it for the same reason: it may be of a personal nature. Could be from his Wife telling him she wants a divorce, Blackmail, someone found out he has a boyfriend, did prison time from 18 - 22 and had the records sealed, etc.
All that said, he / she will take personal and direct delivery of your letter. Recall that I supported the systems of the Executives and Board of Directors in my Career. Recall the CEO earning $59,000,000.00/year, which breaks down to $28,365.38 per hour on a forty hour week (granted, he easily put in sixty hours a week). His home is next to Tom Brady s.
Can you imagine the anger that CEO felt at having to sign for what amounted to a letter of complaint when he had an 85,000 person corporation to run? NOT HAPPY.
Mail sent via USPS Restricted Delivery is not inexpensive at $10.02 (last I knew) but powerful. How powerful?
In 2004 before Porter Cable was sold to PentAir I sent a scathing letter to the President of Porter Cable. A week later on a Saturday at 1400 HRS US EST (I still remember the day and time) I received a phone call from their CFO who was calling on behalf of the President. He apologized that he could not help me immediately as he was in Maui on vacation with his family. He further explained that he was leaving that night and asked me if I had a copy of their 2004 - 2005 Catalog. I did and told him that. He told me to pick out whatever I wanted, regardless of cost or quantity. He asked me to write down the part numbers and quantities and that at exactly 0900 HRS US EST I would receive a call from his Executive Admin to take my order on Monday. She called at exactly 0900.
My order came to just over $7,000.00 USD and included two of their most expensive Dovetail Jigs. Downside was I had to file it with my State and Federal Taxes.
So if you re serious, take my advice.
Ridgid is owned by Emerson Electric. Direct your Restricted Delivery letter to:
Mr. Lal Karsanbhai
Chief Executive Officer and President
Emerson US and World Headquarters
Emerson Electric Co.
8000 West Florissant Avenue, P.O. Box 4100,
St. Louis , MO 63136
Best,
Lyman
- LGLDSR73
- kmancali
I am not saying they'd give a woodworker Dime One. But if enough complaints reach the highest levels it may get them to rethink discontinuing the product.Lyman, that s an interesting tip on using restricted mail to try to reach the CEO, and might be effective in some cases. It certainly gives you a chance to reach the recipient, rather than feel like you re yelling into the void. I do however think your example of of successfully implementing this approach seems like it s more likely an outlier. I honestly don t think the Ridgid parent company cares much what a single or even handfull of woodworkers think about a single product in a very crowded market, and I doubt they d be likely to fork over thousands of dollars to one or more disgruntled woodworkers for a few letters that reached their desk. I work for a very large corporation, and even if our CEOs admin didn t intercept the letter, I highly doubt our CEO would do more than read the first line or 2 of the letter before promptly tossing it and moving on with his very busy day. I can also guarantee that there is 0 chance that our CFO would ever call any customer directly to admit fault or offer some kind of compensation. There s no transparency or accountability to direct letters. They have no penalty for ignoring the letters. No one but the sender knows that it s been sent.
In the current world of twitter, he d be much more likely to respond to some coordinated tweets, rather than direct letters, but even at that, it would have to be a trending topic for him to really care, and even at that, direct payments to the ones tweeting? I just can t imagine it.
I too am disappointed that they discontinued this model, but let s face it. It s not the world s greatest jointer, was not the world s best selling unit, and there are many similar alternatives in the same price-ballpark. I also have a feeling that this same design (or very similar) will start to show up from other Asian vendors before too long now that it s discontinued.
I just don t think the company will really get too interested in the response from our community after announcing its demise.
That s just my 2c.
I am absolutely livid, having purchased Ridgid products for years. On June 16, 2021, I purchased the Model JP06101 Joiner / Planar from Home Depot. A little over two months ago. My first thought was to order parts that will fail such as the belt.
The belt has been discontinued and is not available and finally after scouring the Web I located a replacement on Amazon. On a side note I have an email from Ridgid telling me that it is on backorder. This morning after seeing on the Web that it is discontinued I called Ridgid Tech Support and was told it is in fact discontinued and not available.
If you want to order one or more the Part # is 817393-7 (IC BELT V A-36). Enter that Part Number at Amazon and it will pop up.
Everyone always wants to "Write the President of the Company". Fact is when mail comes through addressed to him it is almost always routed to the rank and file in Customer Service who will send you a letter that simply states the Party Line.
Prior to retiring I was in IT for 40+ years. Several of those were spent supporting the entire Executive Team from the VP s, SVP s, CFO, all the way up to a $59M/yr CEO & President as well as thirty members on the Board of Directors. If you are serious about getting a letter directly to a CEO, CFO, President without it being rerouted to Customer Service here is what you need to do:
Compose your letter in a professional manner; leaving out any and all vulgarity and personal attacks, character assassination, etc.. Express you anger, tell him / her that you ve put all of your Ridgid product on Craigslist or eBay (or just tossed it) and explained in your posting(s) why you re virtually giving it away. Tell him / her how many years you ve been woodworking, buying their product, etc.
If you want to embellish, tell him / her you returned to Home Depot the $1,600.00 of Ridgid product you bought last week. Remember, a CFO and CEO only understand one thing: Red Ink is bad, Black ink is good.
So how do we get this letter to the personal and direct attention of a CFO or CEO and President?
USPS Restricted Delivery Mail. Under Federal Law mail sent via Restricted Delivery Mail may only be signed for by the Addressee, with rare exceptions. It may be sent to Legal who will contact the CEO and ask permission to open and read it. 99.9% of the time the answer will be "No" as they do not know if it is of a personal nature. The unopened letter will be brought up to him or her.
The CEO may have delegated his Executive Admin to sign for the letter but not open it for the same reason: it may be of a personal nature. Could be from his Wife telling him she wants a divorce, Blackmail, someone found out he has a boyfriend, did prison time from 18 - 22 and had the records sealed, etc.
All that said, he / she will take personal and direct delivery of your letter. Recall that I supported the systems of the Executives and Board of Directors in my Career. Recall the CEO earning $59,000,000.00/year, which breaks down to $28,365.38 per hour on a forty hour week (granted, he easily put in sixty hours a week). His home is next to Tom Brady s.
Can you imagine the anger that CEO felt at having to sign for what amounted to a letter of complaint when he had an 85,000 person corporation to run? NOT HAPPY.
Mail sent via USPS Restricted Delivery is not inexpensive at $10.02 (last I knew) but powerful. How powerful?
In 2004 before Porter Cable was sold to PentAir I sent a scathing letter to the President of Porter Cable. A week later on a Saturday at 1400 HRS US EST (I still remember the day and time) I received a phone call from their CFO who was calling on behalf of the President. He apologized that he could not help me immediately as he was in Maui on vacation with his family. He further explained that he was leaving that night and asked me if I had a copy of their 2004 - 2005 Catalog. I did and told him that. He told me to pick out whatever I wanted, regardless of cost or quantity. He asked me to write down the part numbers and quantities and that at exactly 0900 HRS US EST I would receive a call from his Executive Admin to take my order on Monday. She called at exactly 0900.
My order came to just over $7,000.00 USD and included two of their most expensive Dovetail Jigs. Downside was I had to file it with my State and Federal Taxes.
So if you re serious, take my advice.
Ridgid is owned by Emerson Electric. Direct your Restricted Delivery letter to:
Mr. Lal Karsanbhai
Chief Executive Officer and President
Emerson US and World Headquarters
Emerson Electric Co.
8000 West Florissant Avenue, P.O. Box 4100,
St. Louis , MO 63136
Best,
Lyman
- LGLDSR73
- kmancali
Looool The post that triggered your rant was SPAM, and has been removed by Admin after others flagged it.I was under the impression that many people were upset at it being discontinued. To wit, in an email I received on 26-AUG-21 from the Lumberjocks Notifier:
"Ridgid has announced that they are discontinuing the Ridgid 6 1/8 Jointer/Planer. This announcement has been met with a lot of adverse reactions from users across various social media outlets. Many users are stating that this is the last time they will purchase a Ridgid product. They are upset that they will have to buy another product from another company to do it themselves at a better price. You can read some benchtop reviews about jointers (link removed) to make a good decision. There you will find all pros and cons.".
- LGLDSR73