Apart from the mass house builders wooden windows are still a preference. They are aesthetically more pleasing, environmentally friendly , and more importantly give far superior U values...I can see PVC taking a back seat in the future...We have a lot of old buildings in the UK and to add plastic would be criminal...
I agree. Obviously, the wooden windows are the best. Together with the wooden floor and furnitures, the wooden windows and doors will make your house beautiful and luxurious.
thank you for this comment. I'm a wood window restorer and starting to build windows (which is why I'm here trying learn more about my shaper table) www.oddjobshr.com
Let me see, time it took to make one window frame then one window and it didn’t fit together in the end after using all that expensive equipment must have a meaning in there somewhere?
Not a criticism, but... with that very high removal rate, what keeps the stock against the fence? The feed rollers don't appear to be pressed for enough down-force in the vertical, to do that horizontal job and I scrutinized the rollers for biased-axis toward the fence, but no.... the shafts are perpendicular to the fence. For a high-end, low production custom window shop, this machine would hands down beat the several machines that it substitutes for and would be more cost-effective than a CNC version, which can be only be justified for very high production and even then, the CNC machine would be most cost effective with long runs of each window model.
I have the Felder Format4 shaper and they also have window tooling with 30, 40, and 50MM spindles. If you have your feeder set with skew tracing the woods stays put.
That is a fair question, not a smart ass one. Most would say that machine operators should not wear gloves for safety reasons. Some would balance that against the volume of stock handled, the coldness typical of many shops during the heating season, and the use of feeds and other equipment to keep the hands away from cutterheads.
