Making mouldings - spindle moulder - safety police skip this post!

[deema]

Well, I’m bored! Kids came home for Xmad, we gave them Christmas dinner and presents, they gave me Covid! So, so far luckily, same symtoms as a cold….but it’s giving me time to look at uTube.
I thought this was interesting, nice guy, has a few videos up there. Now, there are safer ways of doing the jobs, but it shows the capability of a spindle.

 

[doctor Bob]

He's done a good job, for me personally I'd grind cutters. The only reason being that I hate multi cuts as invariably one will go wrong, or you miss a cut or the guy comes back next week and askes for 4 more ft please.

 

[RobinBHM]

Now, there are safer ways of doing the jobs

The methods used are pretty much the way all joinery shops would set up and run a spindle moulder. It all looked safe to me - Euro profile block with limiters, power feed to run. Trial cuts alway look a bit dodgy, but are fine if the piece of wood is long enough so it always extends past the indeed fence and gives plenty of hand space to grip it

I know some would argue false fences should be used for every cut - but joinery shops generally use the metal fence plates and adjust them so they are close. You get a wiggle at the end, but that’s easily sorted by doing them over length.

Ive not used a tilting spindle so it’s interesting to see the flexibility that gives you.

In my experience the set up cost and run cost of multiple cuts to make a mould is more than buying a profile ground set of cutters.…in line really with Bobs comment

 

[baldkev]

Get well soon and have a good new year