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Budget spindle moulder

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hardwood66

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

Kirk
 
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.

thanks mark.
 
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