Thread: Frilly nickers cabinet

Originally Posted by John Samuel

Just had an "Oh sh1t!" moment after reading your post.

I was thinking I was limited to 50 mm deep stock from which to cut the legs, because the longest straight bit I could get was 50 mm.

However, I have two such bits; one with the bearing at the top and one with the bearing at the bottom. The latter is used with this sled, so the bearing runs on the sled.

However, if I had (say) 75-90 mm stock ... what is stopping me from using the cutter with the bearing at the bottom for a first pass in a sled and then taking the stock out of the sled and using the cutter with the bearing at the top to complete the shaping (running the bearing along the surface of the first cut)?

That's the problem with being self taught ... one always has a fool for a teacher. Thanks for your post. It has given me a new idea to follow up.

Cheerio!

John

I do a similar thing but have an extension on my spindle moulder shaft so anything bigger than 80mm I do the first pass with the bearing at the bottom on the sled then whack on a couple of spacers on the shaft under the bearing so the bearing runs on the surface of the previous cut. Handy if you don't have a right angle to work from when you take it out of the sled (eg curves on all 4 sides).

To be honest though, I rarely need to do that with the spiral cutter. It's big enough most of the time. It's a great piece of kit and for felder, I thought the price was pretty good as well.