Comments on: Add 3-Way Case Mouth Cutter to Your Forster Trimmer

By: Grimstod

Grimstod — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:44:59 +0000

Next someone should start making carbide pilots.

Also I wonder if this thing fits a L.E. Wilson trimmer.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:29:56 +0000

Not a bad idea, I just measured the shaft on my RCBS and it is .493. So that makes it kind of interchangeable but I’m not one to stick a pilot in my neck any more, scars them up too bad. Carbide would be a definite plus.

By: Bryan Webster

Bryan Webster — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:45:39 +0000

I bought three of these in different calibers and found them to be surprisingly good…just do not lose any of the tiny screws.

By: F-T/R shooter

F-T/R shooter — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:48:48 +0000

You sound like a great candidate for a Giraud. It’s light years ahead of anything else on the market.

By: Grimstod

Grimstod — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:06:05 +0000

I have wondered the same about compatability woth other trimmers. RCBS Lyman Redding are all cross compatable. Anybody know?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 05:47:54 +0000

The funny thing is that the OLD Redding trimmer had a FIXED blade. The case heads went in a stepped collet attached to the crank-handle).

The cute part was that you could adjust the blade to cut “square, inside chamfer or outside chamfer only, or trim, inside and outside chamfer all at once.

The weak points were the collets were VERY hard and would occasionally fracture, and the handle became VERY uncomfortable after a few hundred cases.

I ended up mounting the spindle with the cutter blade in the chuck of a big drill press and using Lee Zip-Trim shell-holders and their Spigots in a small machine vise, to build the worlds biggest .223 case trimmer.

I also have a Lyman trimmer, but it leaves burrs on the case ends and these get removed by a “hand” type inside / outside chamfer tool mounted in the chuck of my small lathe.

Crude but effective.

A motorized “one-shot” version of the OLD Redding trimmer would be a seller to those who have better things to do than prepare cases in a zillion steps.

By: Grimstod

Grimstod — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:32:57 +0000

I have often wondered if the cutting head is compatible with Reddings timing lathe. I know that the Hornady and RCBS cutting heads all work on the Redding.