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And Now for Something Completely Different - lincmercguy - 03-02-2019
A friend of ours makes and sells soap. She brought a couple of rough designs to me and asked me to make a soap mold and cutter. I had never thought about how soap was made in small scale (I imagine high volume is similar to injection molding). She is working with a smaller mold and a knife, but needs to increase her batch size. I can say with complete certainty that this is the best soap mold and cutter I have ever made.
One of the pictures shows routing the slots in the sliding table. When I built this workbench, I put a Peachtree T-Track in the middle and have a few different styles of hold-down clamps. I really like it when stuff like that is useful.
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RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - museumguy - 03-02-2019
Pretty cool. Any clue how it works?
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - Stwood_ - 03-02-2019
What size bars is it cutting? Getting any free bars?
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - Gary G™ - 03-02-2019
Looks like 3 guillotines.
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - lincmercguy - 03-02-2019
"What size bars is it cutting? Getting any free bars?"
It cuts the large slab into 3.5" chunks, then those are cut into bars with a knife. My wife gets sample stuff from her quite a bit, usully experimental batches.
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - BrokenOlMarine - 03-02-2019
Miss Tina makes all natural soaps, they are very popular. I have made several projects for her including stands for display when she goes to craft shows, and soap savers for her to sell from cedar. The cutter looks nice, but I would need to see how it works. I have seen a number of designs, most use Guitar Strings as cutters.
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - lincmercguy - 03-02-2019
This uses the guitar strings as well. Zoom in on the last two pictures and you'll see them.
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - Dan Moening - 03-03-2019
Quote:It cuts the large slab into 3.5" chunks, then those are cut into bars with a knife.
You've made a pretty slick rip-cut sled for the slab ... looks like you (your soap making friend) now need a cross-cut sled to cut the "chunks" into bars.
I have no idea how much is being produced, but time is money.
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - stav - 03-04-2019
I have to say that is the finest soap mold cutter that I have ever seen. First one too. Very nice.
RE: And Now for Something Completely Different - Arlin Eastman - 03-08-2019
Well done buddy.
My wife as wanting to make soap for us and the kids so maybe in the future I will have to get back with you.