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Really nice looking chest of drawers. Sapele is one of my favourite timbers at the moment.

You'll love this one people. Just spoke to Titman, they will do a custom cutter, but I have to go through my 'local' supplier (best part of 30 miles away) - even to get a price, and 'We don't sell to users, only to tool companies. That has been our policy for 40 years'.

Another company stuck in the same time warp as Tilgear I fear.

I wish more companies would only supply through distributors, as it's one way of showing support to the people in the shops doing the hard work of selling the products for them, rather than undercutting them, taking all there profits and making it even harder in rip off britain to make a living.

Rant over :D

Matt.
 
Mr_Grimsdale":3tght0ds said:
It's nice to try and be independent of machinery and expensive tooling IMHO.

OOOh!!! Have to disagree with that, IMHO :)
 
Jacob,

Everything I do is desinged and made to order, and usually a one off, though I will certainly start using that cushioned profile as part of my design armoury. But, at the end of the day the cutter has already paid for itself in time saved, so in some ways it doesn't owe me anything.
 
Did you know that Felder do a "soft-form" cutterblock for the spindle moulder with a range of profiles like that?

Scrit
 
Ididn't knwo about that, but the problem of getting into the inner radius of the feet would still stand - though I suppose I could have done that part by hand.
 
Nick W":20uit973 said:
I didn't know about that, but the problem of getting into the inner radius of the feet would still stand - though I suppose I could have done that part by hand.
I'm not so sure, they look borderline for a ring fence or guide bearing in a spindle to me

Scrit
 
Nick,
It is a couple of years ago now but I visited Wealden and spoke to someone there who explained how they sourced their cutters to me - I was buying a few at the time. He went on to say that they could/would(?) do a profile to order. I forget the details I am afraid but it might be worth contacting them.
 
Chris

I believe their catalogue now says that they've stopped doing the one-offs, which is why I use Titman, Colton or CUK

Scrit
 
Scrit,

The radius at the base of each foot is approx 1 1/2", so a moulder block would not fit, or at least none that I've got. And anyway you'd have had a fit seeing how I profiled them on the router table, so it was probably better to stay away from a moulder. :oops: :oops:

This, by the way explains the slightly wobbly profile on the feet. Now in an ideal world I might have tidied them up, but the imperfection makes them look more hand crafted I feel. Of course the photographer had to choose the worst example to picture, and then light the imperfections to perfection, as it were. :roll: And he chose the worst bit of finishing too. #-o

Inspector,

I don't know how close that one is as they don't give the critical dimensions. The profile I wanted was a quarter ellipse major radius 1", minor 1/4", and by having the cutter made that's exactly (within grinding tolerances before the philosophers/engineers start questioning what exact means) what I got.

W37,

I did ask Wealden if they could make the cutter, but indeed they have now stopped doing that, which is why they referred me to NLS.



Sorry for the use of inches here, I don't normally work pre-historic :lol: , but the customer would only think imperial (lovley old lady), so I had to work imperial for the major dimensions in the design, and it was easier to carry this through the whole project.
 
Further to what has been said above about Titman, it now appears that they will sell stuff to anyone on line :shock: . Go here
 
PostScript:

It would appear that NLS will no longer do custom cutters
Thank you for your enquiry, however, I regret that we ceased the manufacture of this kind of tooling in October 2006, and therefore are unable to offer a quotation,
 

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