Powermatic 54A/54HH 6 Jointer, Base Cabinet

POWERMATIC 54A/54HH 6” Jointer

Creating flat, straight surfaces is crucial in the quest to build elegant projects. Virtually all forms of joinery and the tools that cut them depend on straight edges and square cuts. The POWERMATIC 54A/54HH 6” Jointer makes it easy to achieve the high levels of accuracy you need in this always-crucial operation.

Base Cabinet

The 21”-wide by 13”-deep all steel base cabinet provides stable footing for the POWERMATIC 54A/54HH 6” Jointer and puts the table surface at a comfortable 32” above the floor.

The Powermatic 54A/54HH 6” Jointer has been designed and built to provide the u7ltimate in accuracy and dependability.

The all-steel base cabinet not only provides stable footing for the jointer, it houses the motor and dust collection outlet.

The 1 HP, 1Ph, 115/230V motor (pre-wired 115V) is factory-mounted within the base cabinet and can be converted to use 230V power should that be desirable. The motor is on a special mount within the base cabinet that allows the user to adjust belt tension should that become necessary.

The base also contains the dust collection chute that evacuates debris from below the cutterhead. The chute guides that debris to the exterior 4”-diameter port near the floor. Locating the outlet port near the floor helps keep the hose out of the way and puts it at a similar height as the inlet of our popular dust collectors such as the PM1300.

3-Knife Cutterhead (54A Model)

The POWERMATIC 54A Jointer features a 3-knife cutterhead fitted with adjustment cams that make setting critical knife height easy and extremely accurate. Each knife is 6 1/16”-long, ¾”-tall and 5/64”-thick and made from high quality steel.

The knives are secured by a set of 4 gib screws and a gib plate.	The 54A cutterhead (top in this
	photo) features our Quick Set
Below each knife are two adjustment cams. The included manual	knife system that uses cams to
provides complete instructions (with illustrations) that make	position the knives precisely so
	they cut smoothly and work
changing and setting the knives easy. They even show how to offset	together equally to disperse wear.

one or more of the knives for cutting small rabbets or to compensate for small nicks in a knife.

Helical Cutterhead (54HH Model)

There are many cutterhead designs that carry the helical moniker, including simple straight blades broken into segments and dispersed around the cutterhead cylinder. However, despite the name, they retain many of the liabilities of the long blade designs. While designing the POWERMATIC 54HH 6” Jointer we wanted to incorporate the performance of a true segmented, shear-cutting helical head.