Any thoughts on these two trimmers?

I am heavily invested in the Little Crow WFT trimmers and like them.

Giraud makes good stuff and this trimmer looks like it functions the same as the WFT.

Supposedly, if you trim properly on the WFT, you do not have to chamfer and deburr the cases. I still chamfer and deburr my cases.

The Giraud looks like it uses the same blade arrangement as the more expensive Giraud trimmer which does chamfer and deburrs the case when trimming.

The WFT uses a standard end mill for a cutter. I do not know how special the Giraud blades are.

I'd probably give the Giraud a try unless delivery times are lots slower than what can be had with the WFT.

I've used the wft and it works fine although they need bigger chip holes which the giraud seems to address. I sold all my wft's to buy a Trim-It however. I had three wft's and the profits paid for a new trim it and 4 caliber conversions for it.

I have a WTF2. Im happy with it. I load multiple calibers, so its a big cost savings. I do plan on drilling some bigger holes in the body to let the chips fall out easier. I do need to deburr and chamfer with the WFT, but I SSTL media tumble so back int he tumbler after trimming to avoid that step.

The Giraud is good, but more expensive for multiple calibers.

I have two of the Giraud TriWay trimmers (223 and 308) and love them. I haven't tried anything else... He makes very nice tools, I just purchased his annealer also.

I will sell you my WFT so I can try the Giraud

The WFT works very well and I have only trimmed a few hundred cases with it, Bought direct from LCGW

The Giraud costs a bit more but has some features I would like, It was not around when I bought the WFT

The comment by "rc109a" in post #4 are right on the money. The Trim-It really is a good trimmer along the same lines as the ones you asked about but is great to adjust because of the micrometer that is built into the unit.

For what it's worth here is the website:

http://eztrimit.com/

My Trim-It works fine after a many rounds...no problems.

FWIW any chatter or wobble on an end mill is usually due to a dull cutter blade. This may be the problem here as well.

I just received one in before Christmas and it had over a 1/8" walk in it. Not acceptable. Called them and they shipped out another body to replace it along with a pickup for the old one. Have not received the replacement yet. But any walk will impact the cutting since it indexes off of the center of the shaft. And will be cutting one side more than the other.

Update.

I received the replacement in and it runs a lot truer then the old one. It has a little walk due to the set screw locking the adj. The fix for that is to put a shim on the back side to keep it from shifting out of alignment. I used a business card stock which is around 0.006" thick. Or just add another set screw on the opposite side then you can adjust it out. I may put 2 at 120° apart then it will have less of an impact.

rc109a said:

For those with the trim-it are you buying separate dies for cartridges based off the same parent case(308 and 243...etc)?

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Yes...specific to the cartridge being trimmed. I only use it for two, .223 Remington and .30-06.

I also have the original Trim-It rather than the Trim-It II. Chamfering and deburring in a separate step doesn't bother me and I use that as a final case inspection step.

I got a WFT for Christmas. So far I like it, it's so much faster. I've only used it for maybe 100 cases though. I might have to debur them also. I was under the impression that this trimmer did that for you, but they still look a little rough to me...

I also saw a video on youtube were a guy used a plastic bottle of some kind to make a shield for the WFT that prevented it from flinging brass chunks all over the place. I might have to give this a try...

I like my WFT, money well spent IMO.
Trimming .223 is no longer a pain.

(note it does need a 1/2" drill won't fit in a 3/8". )

Tagging to see where this discussion goes. I'm tempted to get something for 223 that works with a power tool.

The old hand crank unit gets old.