Kutzall wheel on RAS 115?

[joec]

I have just purchased the RAS 115 for using on my Maloof rocker I am getting ready to start. A fellow I know that has built around 10 of these rockers just called me and had found the Kutzall wheel online and says it is the best thing for shaping. I was wondering if anyone had used this device or knew if it would fit on the RAS 115.

http://www.kutzalltools.com/kutzall_products_categories.cfm?category_ID=13d

 

[JJ Wavra]

I have the medium round kutzall, the older style not holly galahad, and I found that 36 grit saphir cuts almost as fast but gets almost all the dust.  I imagine that if you could attach the burr because of the thickness you would not get as good dust collection.  I only work inside so I built a box with dust collection out the back to use the kutzall.  the dust was horrible. I intend in the future to just take a little longer with the saphir, which by the way was easier control, and not have the clean up.

Hope this helps I know that it does not answer your question directly.  If you do attach the burr I would like to know how it worked.
Jeff

 

[PaulMarcel]

A friend of mine (Brian) is currently making 5 dining chairs and 2 settees 'Maloof-style'.  He borrowed my RAS to try it out with P36 Saphire like Jeff tried and loved it. Part of the benefit of the RAS for him is accelerating the shaping of the legs as well as the joints compared to using rasps everywhere.  The "no fines" dust collection also won him over.  The RAS will have better results at everything except scooping the seat than the Kutzall, but then there are much faster and better ways to scoop a seat than hogging it out entirely with a Kutzall.

Brian had made one when I lent him the RAS for part of another chair.  According to him, it greatly sped up the work.

I looked at attaching a Kutzall to a RAS while Chris Wong was out to visit.  The biggest issue for shaping is that the dust shroud is in the way of the edges that you'd use to scoop.  You could cut the shroud back, but you'd lose a lot of the benefit.  Add that the dust port entering the RAS would appear pretty far behind the Kutzall... you'd need a pierced wheel for a chance of DC (I think the Holy Galahad is pierced, though).