Milling wood & sanding with the machine

At bildhau you will find a variety of milling and sanding attachments for woodworking – for the angle grinder, drill, for flex shafts or straight grinders. If you mainly have flat surfaces to sand, e.g. furniture, we can also highly recommend the random orbital sanders from MIRKA.

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Milling with ARBORTECH tools

The milling tools from the Australian wood specialist ARBORTECH have already proven their skills many times over: The power tools from ARBORTECH are particularly helpful for the free moulding of large wooden sculptures as well as detailed work. In our experience, it makes sense to work in the upper to maximum specified speed range in order to utilise the full effectiveness of the milling discs in particular. Please ensure that your angle grinder has a corresponding speed range!
With the milling discs WOODCARVER and TURBO Plane from ARBORTECH, you have powerful chip removal for larger format work. For smaller jobs, there is the TURBO Plane mini. With TURBOshaft and BALL Gouge, you can easily carve out smaller cavities in the wood. For fine sanding work, ARBORTECH offers the Contour Excenter sander, which can also adapt very well to strongly curved shapes.

Power carving milling attachments from MANPA TOOLS

MANPA TOOLS come from South Korea and are high-quality power carving tools: As attachments for the angle grinder, they offer a powerful alternative to power carving chainsaws.

For the Multi Cutter and Belt Cutter attachments, bildhau offers milling discs with round and triangular cutting edges for effective material removalg and fast shaping. The holes cutters, which can be used directly on the angle grinder, are multi-talented and are suitable for coarse material removal as well as fine contours and recesses. Sanding mandrels and extensions enable milling and sanding in recesses. The detail milling cutters are the perfect milling tools for PROXXON grinders, flex shanks and FOREDOM milling machines, for example.

SABURRTOOTH shank burr

With the SABURRTOOTH shank burrs you can work with extraordinary precision, the tool attachments can be guided very well. Depending on the format and grit size, you can achieve powerful to fine material removal. SABURRTOOTH shank burrs can be used for all types of wood: For soft wood, the extra coarse (orange), coarse (green) and medium coarse (red) rasp milling attachments, for hard wood the coarse (green) and fine (yellow). The fine shank burrs are not as suitable for soft wood, as the burrs can clog too quickly due to the long wood fibres.
With the SABURRTOOTH shank burrs, you can also work in the lower (from 4,000 rpm) and medium speed range up to a maximum of 11,000 rpm. Please pay attention to the exact information on the speed range for the respective shank burrs.

Sanding wood

There are also various systems for sanding wood: For us, sanding with ABRANET hook-and-loop sanding discs and corresponding hook-and-loop backing-pads has proven very successful for woodworking. Of course, at bildhau you will also find classic sandpaper for the angle grinder. For particularly detailed work, you can also use the sanding systems for flex shanks or straight grinders. Large surfaces can be processed very well with the MIRKA random orbital sanders.

When working with the angle grinder, please bear in mind that the weight of the angle grinder can be too high when using abrasives with small diameters – if there is too much pressure, too much heat can also be generated. This can burn the wood and cause unsightly discolouration. At the same time, the loops of the hook-and-loop sanding disc can melt, which means that the hook-and-loop sanding discs no longer have any grip. It is therefore advisable to always lift the angle grinder slightly when sanding.

Grinding is always carried out in the lower speed range of around 4,500 rpm to avoid generating too much heat and thus prevent burns. Large discs require a lower speed than smaller discs. In principle, the discs should never travel at more than 45 m/s. You can carry out a simple conversion yourself using the following formula:

Ø [in mm] x speed [rpm] : 20,000 = speed [m/s]

A disc of Ø 125 mm has a cutting speed of 125 mm x 6000 rpm : 20,000 = 37.5 m/s at 6,000 revolutions per minute.

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