Thread: Goldie Woodworking Machine

Rob, I love the goldie !!
I have had old posts opened before by talking to the moderators and asking them to reopen so you can add more.
It would be good to see this post merged !

Melbourne Matty.

She is a beauty isn't she Matt . I will tinker with it a bit more , a vfd for the motor for the cutter is what I would like, and then a paint job one day ,if I get around to it.
Maybe black and Gold lettering like your thicknesser . I think it has to be Gold for the lettering considering it's name .
Here are pictures of two others I have spotted . One on ebay and the other pictures were sent to me by a former apprentice who spotted it at a Mens shed on the NSW coast . I spoke to the seller of the ebay one and he knew of my Goldie . The colour on the mens shed one matches what looks like the original of mine . I like going back to original most of the time but with this Im Not sure ?

Rob,

That's a great machine, thanks for the videos, it certainly makes light work of those cabriole legs. The VFD would be a good idea.

Cheers,

Camo

Yeah Camo , it speeds up the making of them . It's only worth it for a run of ten or more though I suppose . It takes hours to make templates and hours more to set up and test before cutting . If I get a job for two chairs where I needed four front cab legs and four back which are different then its back to cutting out on the band saw and then spoke shaves , eight legs should take eight hours by hand , It would take that to set the machine up ready to go .

Hi Rob,
what a cool machine!
you have been on quite a run lately getting some nice machines. You are obviously having fun with it all.
This one didn't seem to need too much work to be up and running, always a big plus!

Have fun,
Alli

Hi Alli.

Yes it's been a Year ( last year ) of buying and moving BIG things about Wadkin as you know.
This old Goldie I bought about five or six years ago, It could be even seven ? I will have to look it up. It is a cool thing with lots of potential.
When I got it it was all jammed up with ancient saw dust and had to be cleaned up , the carriage was the main part that needed attention .
It came off and was taken to bits , and quite a few repairs and parts fiddled with, to much to list now but I did spend many hours on it . and it's working .

It sits under a lean to out back and one problem I had was it rusting up and me endlessly trying to stop it with WD 40 .
We had a knowledgeable guy drop in and point out how useless WD 40 is at keeping rust at bay and he put us on to Inox ,
I did a bit of googleing of WD 40 and rust and so after reading that I orderd in some Inox
I cant believe how good it is , I went out and bought 20 liters of it .

So the Goldie is doing well now , it was suffering from surface rust coming back for a while.
Rob

Hi Rob,
I didn't realise that you'd had it for so long and done so much work too it.
It looks really good, I bet it will save you a lot of work on production runs.

Have fun,
Alli

I just found this . its circa 1925 . A Robinson CV , Single Copying lathe.

Interesting machine Rob - do you get much blowout from the cutter exiting the timber ? John

Not really any blow out at all John. The cutter angle is fine and the amount taken off with each cutter is tiny. When I do legs for example I rough them out on the band saw first , trying to leave between 5 and 10 mm for the Goldie to work with.
Here is a close up of a test cut , this may have been on one of the faster lead screw speeds.

Thanks for the close up and explanation Rob .... I really like what this machine does. John