Basic Spindle Moulding by Roy Sutton

Roy Sutton was a well-known woodworker in the world of British Woodworking in the 80s and 90s and produced a few excellent VHS tapes on working with Routers and other woodworking equipment, this video goes over the basics of using the Spindle Moulder, although it is a 20+ year old video many of the principles still apply to spindle moulders today.
I do not own the copyright to this video, Fine Grain Productions Limited held the copyright but has been defunct since 2015. If you own the copyright or are Roy Sutton's Family, please get in touch if you wish for the video to be removed from KZbin.
I believe that Roy would rather have his work freely available for all to see and make of use now that such a large amount of time has passed since it was made, let alone since he passed away rather than have it fade away into obscurity by having all hard copies either sat on people's shelves gathering dust or thrown into skips.
Roy passed away on the Sixteenth of November in 2000 at the age of 82 from an Asbestos-related illness, likely Mesothelioma.

[@oscardump5092]

Thank you for sharing the knowledge of this great man, a true craftsman like there are no longer many. I did not know these videos, but I just learned in a few tens of minutes, much more than a year of practice. Thanks to Roy that his soul goes in peace. (sorry for my bad English)

[@eyuptony]

Hi Trevanion. This is a very useful video for beginners by showing some of the basic set ups and machining operations on this very versatile machine. Good content with proven techniques. Tony

[@AJBTemplar]

Absolutely excellent. Really clear video. Thanks for putting these videos up Trevanion.

[@iancowlishaw8050]

Excellent video , took me back to my apprenticeship :-)

[@joschmoyo4532]

Classic stuff. Those guys are nearly all gone now. But unlike the majority of KZbin channels, these blokes did their time in the trade and really knew what they were talking about. Personally I think it's vital to understand the cutterheads you are using. Many older ones should be destroyed. They are just to dangerous. French heads for example. Terrifying. Scraper type cutters held in place by collars ! Utter BS. The two pin safety heads with limiter safety blanks work well. Less chance of loosing all of your fingers. Custom insert heads are the best but very expensive. Worth the money though. Insert rebate heads are brilliant. Slotter heads can be used as tennoning head's too. I love my insert slotter head. Most are stackable making them much more useful. Thank God cuterheads have come a long way from the meat grinders they used to be.

[@oscardump5092]

Hello Trevanion , thi is the basic Spindle Moulding, there is no advanced moulding ? Do you know if there are other video by Roy Sutton ?

[@WoodMachinist]

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.

[@oscardump5092]

@@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?"

[@WoodMachinist]

@@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.

[@oscardump5092]

@@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.