>Oak Fire Surround again!
- 2011-02-02
- By Mark Rhodes
- Posted in Uncategorized
>I knew for most of the day I would be at the spindle/shaper today, so I locked the doors, turned the stereo up, took the phone off the hook, and concentrated on the job at hand. This is the machine I have the utmost respect for, one mistake on here, means at best a ruined work-piece, at worst a ruined hand. So I don’t mess about, I check, then check again, and probably check again after all the other checking….did I mention to check the spindle. I didn’t take too many photos of this, I needed all my concentration. The first process is to run off half this moulding on three edges, front and two sides. The front is relatively easy, it’s a matter of running it past the hand manglers..ahem I mean cutters, for the moulding to take shape . The ends need to go onto the sliding table, now this is the first time I’ve used it. So I probably spent 1/2 hr getting this set up and running smoothly, I love my sedgwick SM4, but it is a very basic machine and needs fine fettling for this sort of operation(well mine does). I have one chance with this particular moulding, one break in concentration, it’s another trip to the timber yard for me, and a loss of earnings. So I tentatively ran the ends past for the first time, all is well. Then another round of setting up the spindle(and more checking), so I crossed my fingers for the last time, and moulded the mantle for the last time. Happy days it turned out spot on, and I didn’t mess it up.