Good piece of kit for quick waste wood removal.

Good piece of kit for quick waste wood removal. Care needed to avoid overheating the drive and to ensure the drive shaft is not used in a tight radius. Spares are readily available. Shop around for the rasp bits etc.

Hi

I`ve had the Axminster HD Flexi Drive and Reciprocating carving head package deal for nearly a year now and have used it on various woodturned projects,the carving chisels are a bit basic,but when sharpened on a fine oilstone then polished on a slipstrop they have worked very well so far,I`ve used them to carve Oak,Purpleheart,African Blackwood,Ebony and Black Palmera,you can achieve fine details if you are patient and let the tool do they carving,rather than pressing to hard.I also bought the HD keyed chuck as its quicker to use than having to keep changing collets for differing sized shafts on burrs and such,this unit has had a lot of use,works great,the only thing I will say is to keep the exposed chuck key gear area facing away from your palm so its sort of between the thumb and forefinger as it can nip if you don`t,but that`s just a thing to get used to doing.I`m thinking of getting the standard HD collet chuck as I`m pleased with what I have and so I can use my 1/4"-6.4 mm burrs etc; as well as the normal 3-3.2-and 2.32 mm burrs etc;,so a happy bunny here,Regards,

Eric.

Serious Wood Remover

An excellent tool. Quickly shifts the bulk and gives you the control to easily deal with the fine detail. A must have tool for the serious wood carver.

Great tool

I've used this for jewellery work for years, & found it to be a great tool & a lot cheaper than jewellery drills on offer.

The only issue I have is that on obtaining power carver gouges for wood with a hand piece, I cannot remember how to change hand pieces nor easily find the instructions online.

I will have a chat with the tech dept but it would have been easier if I could quickly refer online to this

Otherwise very happy