Is this safe to use on a tablesaw?

That is a molding head designed to be used on a table saw or radial arm saw. Can't really tell about the knives based on that picture, but they seem to be for a different head - got any better pictures? Those heads are pretty rough on a table saw, and many can't use them - so unless you have a fairly substantial machine, you would probably be better off just getting a standard dado set.

Clean up the head and let us know what the markings on it are. I know that Craftsman had a head similar, as did Delta. Figure out who made it and you can get more info on it.

Edit: Here is a shot by fellow LJ Dusty56 showing some variations on the Delta molding head and appropriate cutters for them (Found in this thread):



Cheers,
Brad

That is a molding head designed to be used on a table saw or radial arm saw. Can t really tell about the knives based on that picture, but I assume that is what they are for. They are pretty rough on a table saw, and many can t use them - so unless you have a fairly substantial machine, you would probably be better off just getting a standard dado set.

Clean up the head and let us know what the markings on it are. I know that Craftsman had a head similar, as did Delta. Figure out who made it and you can get more info on it.

Edit: Here is a shot by fellow LJ Dusty56 showing some variations on the Delta molding head and appropriate cutters for them (Found in this thread):

Cheers,
Brad

- MrUnix

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Oh very cool! I can see tomrrow what it says on it. Glad to know it can go in the saw and not fly off and behead me

Here's my piece, a "Reyco" from Vancouver, BC Canada.

I spent a few years, ages ago, in an old mill known as "Gregg and Son" Millwork. Their main product was upscale kitchens, back when you bought a kitchen and installed it as a built-in. Then, Triangle Pacific bought the place and shifted the focus away from one-off kitchens, to discrete pre-built cabinets to be hung on your kitchen walls.

We had to deal with disgruntled old-timers who no longer got tapped for fancy hand work, and were stuck behind production machinery all day. However, when asked, they would gladly show off their old shrapnel wounds from busted shaper cutters hurled around the room. most of them over the course of their earlier career had at one time or another took a carbide chunk to the gut.

That's why I never used my 3-wing shaper head on my table saw. Cripes the old shapers would only hit you at gut level, worse yet a vertical cutter head that could get you right between the eyes.

Keep your shaper head as a curiosity, and get a compliment of vintage molding planes and a Stanley #45 or equivalent. You'll be ahead in the long run!