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[LBCarpentry]

Can any help me Id or find a suitable cutter for the below sash horn profile before I fully give up and make my own - a scary process that I did once and rather not repeat too often if I can help it

Horn is 70mm
Actual moulding is 50mm

Thanks!

Louis

 

[Trevanion]

Just man up and grind one up you wimp

I doubt you’ll find anything off the peg that’ll match anyway Louis, get grinding

 

[owen]

How many windows have you got to make? If its not too many it would be quicker just to bandsaw and sand the horns

 

[LBCarpentry]

How many windows have you got to make? If its not too many it would be quicker just to bandsaw and sand the horns

No bandsaw

 

[LBCarpentry]

Just man up and grind one up you wimp

I doubt you’ll find anything off the peg that’ll match anyway Louis, get grinding

Its only scary because I can never be bothered to grind the limiters and I just go for it with an unbalanced block !

 

[LBCarpentry]

Fine - A lesson for the new apprentice coming up then...templates and routering

Cn;t wait for him to smash out the wrong end - Better order some filler in

 

[owen]

Coping saw and even more sanding then

 

[Droogs]

Get a hobbies fret saw or an electric scroll saw

 

[AndyT]

Get a hobbies fret saw or an electric scroll saw

Treadle powered fret saw is what I'd do, but this post might show you a quicker way

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/making-custom-spindle-moulder-cutters.115099/post-1311340

 

[Trevanion]

Its only scary because I can never be bothered to grind the limiters and I just go for it with an unbalanced block !

Pfft! Limiters are overrated anyway

I've got an old Whitehill block I picked up (Cheap too!) pretty much with horns in mind for it although I haven't actually got around to using it yet, it's a 40mm tall block but unlike your usual Whitehill block this one has a down-cutting shear angle which I would guess would make a far superior finish on horns due to the shearing action across the grain rather than just cleaving it off. I'm just imagining how the old Wadkin EKA/ECA tenoner blocks used to work as they had a shearing angle built into them which made for cleaner cutting.

I imagine it makes grinding the knives a bit more complex again though, as well as having to take the cutting angle into account so the knife is the right shape depth-wise, you would also have to take into account the shear angle so the shape is correct in the height.

I still think these are my favorite cutters though, quirky little thing:

 

[LBCarpentry]

Pocket watches are quirky.
Monacles are quirky.
Belt buckles are quirky

CUTTER BLOCKS SHOULD NOT BE QUIRKY