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What is wood machinery tooling? What a question and what a variation we have. It is a massive and very complex subject that should be addressed with respect. The Wood machinist of old will, if still around be able to tell you stories and teach you tricks that “Wood” scare the modern Wood Machinists to death.
Wood Working Machine Tooling has improved enormously over the years with regards to safety but unfortunately not conforming to the practicalities of the Wood Machining Trade.
I am lucky in a way that I had the benefit of growing up with and being taught by some of the old boys in the days of square blocks, free hand grinding and even balata belts. How many of you out their remember those times or even know what I am blabbering on about?
We had spindle moulders, Also known as Shapers, with ring fences but no cage guard on the top to cover the horrendous square blocks or even the slotted collars. This type of tooling is now illegal however still used by the few that have the knowledge, experience off free hand grinding and cutter forming combined with the guts to do so as well as hide it from the H.S.E.
We no longer have the scope that used to be available when using Wood Machine Tooling and we have more or less lost the satisfaction of seeing a reproduced seventy year old skirting that was produced by freehand knife grinding.
Tungsten and Stellite have taken over the Circular and band saw industry and Case hardened blades in the local butchers with the butcher who has never been trained on this type of machine to the standards required by law for the Wood machinist. These are toys to those of us who have seen, used and witnessed the logging saw and re-saws with blades that would petrify most people especially when you are standing above a six foot diameter wheel with a 6” blade rather than top and bottom wheels in an enclosed cover standing on a bench just cutting a bone not a three foot wide tree trunk like it was warm butter.
I am forty three years old and still say that the old Circular Blades with the Periphery set with a stone, sharpened by hand in a saw horse and set with the B.W.G. tool will always cut better than any modern blade that has to be sent away to be Polished.
That’s right, I did say Polished, because you can not sharpen Tungsten because it is very hard and very brittle. If you look at it and compare the edge to that of an old plate saw that has been sharpened by hand or on maybe the old Volmer under a microscope you will see that Tungsten will look like a jagged edge. If you hit a piece of lime with Tungsten it will tend to shatter the corners where as the old metal plates would negotiate it with little effort and whistle like a sweat song.
Balance and tracking is an extremely important part of the Wood Working Macnery Tooling industry that I will cover in my next issue.
Do you listen to you’re Wood Working Machines?
Do you’re Wood Working Machine Blades Blister?
Do you have serious vibration off your Wood Working Machine?
Does your Wood Working Machine seem to start with a heavy kick?
Why do you’re Band saw blade,s keep breaking?
Is it worth changing my old cap hold or wedge hold block for Tersa?
www.wood-machine-advice.com
What is wood machinery tooling? What a question and what a variation we have. It is a massive and very complex subject that should be addressed with respect. The Wood machinist of old will, if still around be able to tell you stories and teach you tricks that “Wood” scare the modern Wood Machinists to death.
Wood Working Machine Tooling has improved enormously over the years with regards to safety but unfortunately not conforming to the practicalities of the Wood Machining Trade.
I am lucky in a way that I had the benefit of growing up with and being taught by some of the old boys in the days of square blocks, free hand grinding and even balata belts. How many of you out their remember those times or even know what I am blabbering on about?
We had spindle moulders, Also known as Shapers, with ring fences but no cage guard on the top to cover the horrendous square blocks or even the slotted collars. This type of tooling is now illegal however still used by the few that have the knowledge, experience off free hand grinding and cutter forming combined with the guts to do so as well as hide it from the H.S.E.
We no longer have the scope that used to be available when using Wood Machine Tooling and we have more or less lost the satisfaction of seeing a reproduced seventy year old skirting that was produced by freehand knife grinding.
Tungsten and Stellite have taken over the Circular and band saw industry and Case hardened blades in the local butchers with the butcher who has never been trained on this type of machine to the standards required by law for the Wood machinist. These are toys to those of us who have seen, used and witnessed the logging saw and re-saws with blades that would petrify most people especially when you are standing above a six foot diameter wheel with a 6” blade rather than top and bottom wheels in an enclosed cover standing on a bench just cutting a bone not a three foot wide tree trunk like it was warm butter.
I am forty three years old and still say that the old Circular Blades with the Periphery set with a stone, sharpened by hand in a saw horse and set with the B.W.G. tool will always cut better than any modern blade that has to be sent away to be Polished.
That’s right, I did say Polished, because you can not sharpen Tungsten because it is very hard and very brittle. If you look at it and compare the edge to that of an old plate saw that has been sharpened by hand or on maybe the old Volmer under a microscope you will see that Tungsten will look like a jagged edge. If you hit a piece of lime with Tungsten it will tend to shatter the corners where as the old metal plates would negotiate it with little effort and whistle like a sweat song.
Balance and tracking is an extremely important part of the Wood Working Macnery Tooling industry that I will cover in my next issue.
Do you listen to you’re Wood Working Machines?
Do you’re Wood Working Machine Blades Blister?
Do you have serious vibration off your Wood Working Machine?
Does your Wood Working Machine seem to start with a heavy kick?
Why do you’re Band saw blade,s keep breaking?
Is it worth changing my old cap hold or wedge hold block for Tersa?
www.wood-machine-advice.com
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