£600 spindle moulder

[BradNaylor]

I picked this up from another thread; this spindle moulder looks very interesting.
http://www.charnwood.net/ProductDesc.jsp?cat=44&stockref=W030

I can't say I've ever been very impressed with Charnwood gear, but this looks like a pretty good quality Chiwanese clone. I've never seen a SM with this kind of spec and single phase for under a grand before.

Has anyone actually seen or used one?

 

[Rich]

Hi Dan, I don't know about sm's but the sliding carriage is exactly the same as on my Axminster TS 200 table saw.
regards, Rich.

 

[ProShop]

These are getting quite common at the moment, the Fox, Electra Beckham, Sip, etc, etc all seem to be offering them for sale.

Fox launched theirs quite a while back now. Aren't some Charnwoods machines rebadged Axminsters ?.


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[George_N]

It sounds like a good deal. My home made router table cost me the best part of £100 to make by the time I bought a sheet of 18 mm birch ply and laminate for the top etc. Add to that the cost of a half decent router (£100 - £200) and you're getting up there in terms of cost. The capacity to cut tenons, rebates and profiles in a single pass are also a bonus and once you have the spindle the tooling is relatively cheap compared to a panel raising bit for example.

 

[BradNaylor]

I think that over the next few years a small spindle moulder like this will be standard kit in everyone's workshop.

In my pro shop I've always used router tables a lot but in the last 12 months since I bought an old Wadkin SM more and more jobs have been done on this.

Now, all I use a router table for is for small mouldings and rounding over.

A spindle moulder is so much more efficient and gives a much better result.

 

[ProShop]

I bought a router table some 3 yrs ago, had it for 3 months & sold it, got most of my money back, went out and bought a tilting spindle moulder with quick change router spindle as well, then bought a power feeder, so now I must have the ultimate router table (certainly the most expensive :shock: ).

I hardly use the router spindle , but use the moulder all the time.