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Bill Jurgenson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:37:00 +0100
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:35:50 +0100, David Pickett wrote:
>>I see most (or all?) of the professionals here use a heavy duty
>>spindler router on a table, with custom cutters. However, the total
>>expense for a table, a heavy duty spindler router, plus a two or three
>>custom cutters seems too high for the expected output of an amateur
>>maker. I don't expect to make more than two or three harpsichords more.

hmmm

in key with my bad reputation: do it by hand with a plane or scratch 
stock (that Veritas tool which I do not have).
I plane nearly all my moldings by hand, at least the smaller one being 
talked about: bridge caries, hitchpinrails, cap moldings etc.
I plane the cap molding onto the scantlings before I bend the bentside. 
The only "custom-made" cutter I ever had made is the tungsten carbide 
bit for the bone arcades. For the wooden arcades I use the one I made 
myself over 30 years ago. 
Of course I have a professional spindle router - I am a professional - 
and I do use it but not for any smaller moldings. That is both too slow 
and too dangerous for me. I do use it for large molding such as around 
the lower frame of baluster stands. Or for moldings on organ cases but 
even there, I plane the caries against the panels (frame and panel) by 
hand.

I would not be caught dead trying to muck up things like that with any 
of those toys. 
There is no excuse for not learning how to do smth properly.

my 2 cents

Bill

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