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Budget spindle moulder

Postby hardwood66 » 07 Oct 2014, 22:25

Has anyone had any experience with sip, fox it charnwood style spindle moulders looking to get a small spindle that has the ability to use router bits as well as block cutters
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Re: Budget spindle moulder

Postby RogerS » 08 Oct 2014, 06:01

The general consensus is that spindle moulders don't spin fast enough to be of any use with router bits. I'd buy a decent secondhand proper moulder over a Chaiwanese one any day.


Also if you've never used a moulder than I do strongly urge you to get some tuition first. Remember the old adage...

a router will remove a finger, a spindle moulder a hand.
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Re: Budget spindle moulder

Postby hardwood66 » 08 Oct 2014, 11:27

I did a diploma in machine made furniture so confidant with machinery but yes you can never be to careful with a spindle
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Re: Budget spindle moulder

Postby kirkpoore1 » 08 Oct 2014, 13:30

I've had two shapers with 1/2" spindles, both with 1 hp motors. Both ran at 10000 rpm. I've never tried router bits, but allegedly that's too slow for smaller ones. However, for routine work, even a small shaper delivers much more power than an ordinary router and will cut much deeper. You can do most work in one pass. Safety is of course a significant concern, but the small spindle machines are less likely to grab the work than bigger ones.

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Re: Budget spindle moulder

Postby furnman » 08 Oct 2014, 13:38

The quality of new machines these days are dreadful so I would advise you to go secondhand and get the quality, a sedgewick is not bad but really you should look at one of the small wadkin bursgreens , last for ever and hold its value for ever, beautiful machines.

As for the router cutters , speed is a problem but possible with slower feed speeds and large cutters however quality of finish could always be a problem.

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