Spindle Moulder Tooling for Sash Windows

[Jacob]

In the photo - yes. ;-)

Generally, I can't help thinking that life is more complicated these days with euro blocks and limiters. The trad Whitehill blocks were simpler & more versatile - and entirely safe with good practice. Of course you can do what you like in a one-person workshop, and I'm sure that they appear for sale ...

Agree. You just have to keep your hands out of the way whatever device you are using.
Whitehill blocks were the safety blocks of the day back in the 80s and very much safer than previous varieties.
I only ever had one accident - someone had been fiddling and left a cutter loose. It snapped and shattered, half of it stuck in the workpiece. Nobody hurt. Would have happened the same with any variety of block, "safety" or not.

 

[HOJ]

Does anyone have any advise, or know if the tooling i want exists or can be made?

I'm not sure that migrating to a spindle moulder will solve your situation, without investment in time and tooling to set it up, if I were regularly making the same profiles I would consider a set up such as this guy uses on YouTube: Sash factory

 

[Bretonfox]

Back in the day I used to make loads, the ovolo style were done like this, if it was a more intricate mould it would be a mitre instead of scribe.

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Mould and rebate done on the spindle moulder as separate operations, tenons cut on the tenoner. I had a tenoner with just square blocks, it would drive me mad tenoning on the spindle as unlike @johnnyb I'm not organised enough so would end up wasting time swapping set ups between moulding and tenoning

Hi that book looks wonderfully clear and useful, which one is it please? Cheers

 

[Doug71]

Hi that book looks wonderfully clear and useful, which one is it please? Cheers

Afraid I just grabbed the image from Google, all I know is that it's from one of Charles Haywards books, I don't know which one but I do know you won't go far wrong with any of them!

 

[johnnyb]

To me the meeting rail joints are quite confusing especially the Georgian ones with no horns. These have a sort of comb dovetail. I've seen several windows with top and bottom horns as well.

 

[meccarroll]

To me the meeting rail joints are quite confusing especially the Georgian ones with no horns. These have a sort of comb dovetail. I've seen several windows with top and bottom horns as well.

This post is a year or so old, worth a read but the OP did not seem to make a final desicion.

The dovetail was used if no horns were in place. The dovetail was supposed to stop the joint from being pulled apart when lifting the sash of course horns would hold the joint if used.

 

[Bretonfox]

Afraid I just grabbed the image from Google, all I know is that it's from one of Charles Haywards books, I don't know which one but I do know you won't go far wrong with any of them!

Thanks, his drawings are the best!