moulder advice

[wallace]

I have been playing with the spindle moulder doing some architrave. When the end of the wood passes the block it gets chewed up, I presume lack of support. Would it work better if I had a piece of mdf covering the whole front of the fence and advance the cutters through the mdf so when the work is passed by it cant get chewed.

 

[deema]

There should be a false fence that you add and then slowly move the fence backwards to break out the cutters. This stops the stuff falling back at the end into the cutters and potentially kicking back

 

[Peter Sefton]

Always good to have a false fence and also a saddle for this type of work. The problem is the timber is dropping onto the cutter as you remove the face that was supporting it against the fence. It can be very dangerous and can cause kick back.

I hope you may find a short article I wrote useful.

http://www.peterseftonfurnitureschool.c ... rticle.pdf

Cheers Peter

 

[Racers]

I made a tunnel the same size as the stock from some 18mm birch ply and pine so the back of the stock was supported, it worked a treat when I made some door mouldings on the spindle.

Pete

 

[blackrodd]

The problem you have there is that you are not using a false fence, as the others have said, but you also have no support
when you have taken away the flat edge, at the end of the cut, as evidenced by you're pic, very dangerous you naughty man!
You must fix a packing piece on the false fence to stop the stock "twisting" into the cut.
I would have a piece of packer,tacked to the out feed side of the false fence, just a little higher than the bottom round,
And thick enough to keep from tilting,
In my days on the spindle, the test cut would be made with the packing already in place.
Easier for us as we had literally hundreds, if not thousands of 15" long patterns of every type of mould, and adding every year.
HTH Regards Rodders

 

[RobinBHM]

I can see there is a step at the bottom part of the architrave mould, I just wondered if the cutters were not aligned, although there is no step at the top.

If you are machining with a power feed, the quick method is to have the infeed fence set close to the cutter as possible and run the moulding well over length. Backing up each piece helps also.

Even with a false fence, removing the supporting face leaves an architrave mould vulnerable to dipping at the ends, so you may still not be able to use the last few inches. As Rodders says a packer would help.

It looks like the end of the timber rose up into the cutter because of the unsupported end of the timber dropped, a table extension or roller would help.

 

[wallace]

Thanks for lesson guys.