Suggestions on insert shaper tooling

[Karl Brogger]

Most profiles won't accept a shaker profile. There isn't enough there to back the insert.

I have no input on frued or amana heads, other than both are middle of the road tools for everything else they make. Not bad, but not that great either.

I have an LRH set which is pretty decent, but they filed. I've got another set that I don't know where it came, I think its a WHM. Not sure though. It's a really nice set of heads.

I just ordered a set of Whiteside shaker heads yesterday. $480





I would really like to have some heads custom made that are a bigger diameter, and either 4 or 5 wing. Definitely a 5 wing for a panel raiser.

[Tony Joyce]

I would really like to have some heads custom made that are a bigger diameter, and either 4 or 5 wing. Definitely a 5 wing for a panel raiser.

Help me understand why you would need 4 or 5 wings and which tooling manufacturers recommends this?

[Karl Brogger]

Help me understand why you would need 4 or 5 wings and which tooling manufacturers recommends this?

Recommends? I don't know who recommends it. My cousin had a four wing panel raiser made and it was awesome. My three wing LRH does a good job, his four wing is incredible. Even when not super sharp, it leaves a very smooth cut.

A bigger diameter for cope and rail will give you more room for more inserts and a higher tip speed. Should give a better cut, and with more inserts run some higher feed rates, which for me saves me money.