If I ever come across a time machine that can take me back 30 years, I'll be sure to tell Roy when he's recording the video that he needs to show the setting up of the bits. 😂

You'd have a whistling noise for the most part with any blade spinning at a high speed because the gullets cause turbulence in the air, the smaller the gullets the quieter the blade tends to be, but the resin-filled slots definitely help against the ringing harmonic noises.

Hey there Oscar, as far as I'm aware Roy never made an advanced spindle moulding video, unfortunately, although the basic video is very comprehensive covering most tasks you would want to do with the machine, there isn't much that I've done with the spindle moulder as a professional that Roy didn't touch on in the video, if you have any Spindle moulder related questions feel free to ask me and I'll answer them as best as I can. There are other Roy Sutton videos out there, namely the "Safe Wood Machining", "Developing the Router Workshop", and "Making Router Jigs and Gadgets", I am actively keeping an eye out for copies so that I can upload them here for all to appreciate but they are quite rare in DVD form.

@@WoodMachinist Hello Trevanion, I didn't know you were a professional in woodworking. I am an amateur, I have a Holzprofi spindle moulding with saw, I am from French-speaking Belgium. Thank you, anyway, for putting these videos online, on my side, I will also do some research, you never know that I will find something here in Belgium or in France, if i find it, so I will share these videos with you. Roy's videos are very didactic and I analyze them very closely, I have already watched them several times. I look at his techniques and the templates he used in him workshop. We see that he knew very well the work with spindle moulding. Just for info, for the story, do you know where his workshop was? Was this the address of the studios "14 St Georges avenue Herne Bay Kent?"

@@oscardump5092 Roy was indeed very knowledgeable, and could teach what he knew very well, not everyone can do that! Yes, that was his workshop address, if you look it up on google maps and go on street view you can still see the workshop in a small compound next to the house he lived in although the photo is from 2009, looking at more modern satellite photos it seems the workshop has been demolished and replaced with a house unfortunately.

@@WoodMachinist Yes I confirm, the workshop has been replaced or at least they has made a floor above. It's a shame indeed, we could have turned it into a museum.

Roy Sutton really was a pioneer, he was doing these instructional videos back when it was extraordinarily hard to do so as high-quality camera gear, microphones, lighting, having VHS tapes made and such was very expensive back then, unlike today where you can use your phone and simply record a high-quality video and upload it to KZbin and have a possible audience of millions across the world rather than quite a small pool of British hobbyist woodworkers. I recently read his rather rare autobiography and he was an interesting fellow although quite clearly very introverted and definitely not a socialite, he had a life of adversity in his early years where his father suddenly died when he was a boy and so he was shipped off to a boarding school for fatherless boys and had a very bad experience, when he got out of there and went back home his mother had become a dire alchoholic after her husband had died so homelife wasn't very pleasant either but he notes he did get along with his mother most of the time but swore off drinking because of it. He had a hard time trying to get a foothold in the woodworking craft as there were very few jobs about at this time during the great depression in the 30s so he settled for various unrelated jobs earning where he could. It wasn't until the Second World War broke out where he joined the RAF as a trainee carpenter in North Africa mainly, working on various constructions and eventually on aircraft. When he came back he was able to find work as a Joiner but he was still largely an unskilled woodworker and in his mid-late twenties and so wasn't the most appealing apprentice to take on but he did find work and prove himself as a good pair of hands, eventually working up to high positions wherever he worked and eventually going it alone and starting his own business. Regarding the breathing protection, it was a very different time then to what it is now and I don't believe they quite knew how bad the chemicals in man-made boards or wood in general could be, although Roy does advocate a mask in his "Basic Routing" video, it is interesting he doesn't use on in this one.

@@WoodMachinist very interesting info. What a life. To be honest I'm surprised they use ear protection.

It depends on what part of the world you're in, I don't think they're particularly common in America but here in Britain they're as common as dirt and are just as cheap, nobody really wants them anymore. They are a very rapid machine for batch production, as shown in the video, but they've largely been superseded by CNC machines for that kind of work now.

We still use them in our cabinetry shop. It is basically an upside down router table. Router tables can't do some of the things the overhead can do and vice versa. Our overhead has a sliding compound table (like a metal milling machine). Also a pin that raises from the table to act as a centre point for creating circles. They are great for pattern making, and grooving drawers and such, and quicker to set up then spindle moulders. Also the health and safety officers are never a big fan of them as they can be quite hard to guard, whilst also showing the cut.

@@CA-gy4qf Nice to hear that there are still people out there that get regular use out of them, I would wager than 95% of woodworkers here in Britain wouldn't know how to operate one.

@@WoodMachinist couple of years ago I worked at Lawrence and Macintosh in Edinburgh, Scotland, that was the first time I used overhead router. Not overly impressed to be honest. But I'm glad I had a chance to use it at least once in my life.

@@laius6047 Look up "Saw Handle Maker - Dougie Pope" by the Ken Hawley Collection on KZbin to see a good example of a overhead router in use in a production environment, the amount of material it could remove is absurd. There's also a silent film out there somewhere from WW2 in a furniture factory turned Lee Enfield rifle stock factory where there is some great overhead router work going on to make the stocks as rapidly as possible.

The Freud is definitely the loudest when spinning up, idling, and winding down, but there isn't a terrible amount of difference during cutting or at least that I've noticed. I haven't seen a new blade with copper plugs for a long time, have they fallen out of fashion in favour of these slots?

@@WoodMachinist Yes I think they have since all the fancy shaped laser cut slots became easy to do with CNC machinery. It's just another progression in the development of improving tooling in our era.

Not a problem, I just hope whoever owns the copyright doesn't mind/care. It would be nice to get the rest of the videos up on KZbin for everyone to appreciate, I'm trying to keep an eye out for "Safe Wood Machining", "Making Routing Jigs and Gadgets", and "Developing the Router Workshop" but so far haven't found any copies. The Spindle Moulder video is already on KZbin so no real need to find that one.

Yes! There are far too many 10-minute experts these days.

Thanks Tony, I think it was definitely worth saving as it's a brilliant little machine and while it's no Wadkin or SCM it planes timber just as well! I might do some more videos in the future, we'll see. I also restored a Multico Morticer a little while back if you're interested in looking at that: www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4786