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Anthe Machine Works spindle carver head with bronze bearings from the
early 20th century.
Spindle carvers were a very common tool in production woodcarving and
furniture shops, at least up through the 1970's. I am an architectural
woodworker and found this old machine with a good set of bronze bearings
and started down the path of restoring it and getting it set up with an
electric motor as this comes from an era when shops had a common drive
train that powered multiple machines via leather belts. I had a an GE 3
phase motor rewound and put in great working order. At that point a
complete machine that I had been eyeing for years became available and I
no longer need to proceed with this as a project. It needs a pedestal of
some sort (which could take many forms) on which to attach the head and
the motor and a drive pulley of an appropriate ratio to attach to the
motor's shaft. It is a fun project. It could be finished for its
intended use as a spindle carver or it could also be fit with a sanding
drum or a polishing drum. The tool was used for roughing out carvings,
doing certain forms of finished carving or shaping curved parts like
cabriole legs. It allows you to quickly remove wood in a free hand way.
There are special cutters for these machines which must be acquired
second hand as vintage tools as they are no longer in production. They
do show up in old tools sales. The machine is not for use with modern
shaper cutters. I have also seen them modified for metal polishing or
freehand sanding.
Anthe Machine works was the original inventor of the spindle carver and
was a major producer of the cutters up into the early 2000's. CNC
technology has supplanted most of the hand carving work and made these
sorts of machines largely obsolete. |
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