Strange spindle moulder usage on Youtube

[heimlaga]

What do you say about this:


To me it looks like an accident waiting to happen and judging by the headline he is attempting to teach it..........

 

[Droogs]

Must be an American

 

[clogs]

must be some upmarket shed work in Asia......
notice he still got all his fingers.....
life's cheap over that way......mmmmm

 

[Cabinetman]

Total lunacy, and no riving knife lol. And as you say Heimlaga, he’s trying to teach us!

 

[Daniel2]

Just a matter of time ....

 

[Mike Jordan]

droogs has taken the words from my mouth. If you wished to do that why not a normal straight fence, spelch board, and pressure bar,and take the cut from the bottom. Add a guard to stop the off cuts from flying round the shop and you have a sane working method. He's got,to be a Donald supporter!

 

[MikeG.]

Point of order from a spindle moulder ignoramus.......but is that actually a spindle moulder at all? I mean, a moulder has a block, doesn't it, with vertical slits carrying knives? This looks more like a horizontal circular saw to me. Not that this nomenclature issue changes the level of danger involved.

 

[guineafowl21]

Point of order from a spindle moulder ignoramus.......but is that actually a spindle moulder at all? I mean, a moulder has a block, doesn't it, with vertical slits carrying knives? This looks more like a horizontal circular saw to me. Not that this nomenclature issue changes the level of danger involved.

You can get grooving blades that clamp in like that, or circular saw blades. I use two with a spacer to cut long tenons, but the workpiece is clamped onto a traversing table and all the guards are in place.

 

[Mike Jordan]

Mike. It's common practice to run a saw blade or grooving tool on a vertical spindle moulder. But not like that!

 

[Mike Jordan]

Makes it a shame that the word I
diot is banned from the site

 

[Alpha-Dave]

This guy’s other videos are similar; the ones where he uses a proper SM cutter are still nerve wracking for me, and where he uses it to ‘free hand carve shapes’ prior to using it a template are quite tense.

Big cutter:


Carving:


Then there is the amount of chips and dust he is generating without extraction, eye protection etc.

For me it’s like watching one of the Wadkin promotional videos from 50+ years ago; plenty of people went their entire careers using techniques like that without injury, but then some didn’t.

 

[Trevanion]

He obviously doesn't own a fence



I love the sketchy stuff that's on youtube, these are some of my favourites:

 

[Doug71]

On the A G PAIK spindle moulder video that Trevanion posted the guy free handing the curved end grain on the small curved top panel between the 2 fences at about the 13 minute mark is just crazy, could have got very messy very quickly.

 

[Trevanion]

On the A G PAIK spindle moulder video that Trevanion posted the guy free handing the curved end grain on the small curved top panel between the 2 fences at about the 13 minute mark is just crazy, could have got very messy very quickly.

Hard to believe it’s an advert for a manufacturer isn’t it

 

[Droogs]

I reported under youtube safety violations