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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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