The spindle may be raised and lowered relative to the shaper's table, and rotates between 3,000 and 10,000 rpm, with stock running along a vertical fence. The wood being fed into a moulder is commonly referred to as either stock or blanks. A wood shaper used in 1925, with obsolete and hazardous flat-sided toolingĪ wood shaper, usually just shaper in North America or spindle moulder in the UK and Europe, is a stationary woodworking machine in which a vertically oriented spindle drives cutter heads to mill profiles on wood stock.
