Hey Gerry

========= Two kinds of shapers. One is the wood shaper like an upside router on steroids, the other is a metal shaper aka metal former.

The metal shaper is an old machine tool which has a low production rate, which why it has been generally replaced with a turret mill, but the downside is that you need special cutters for the mill to do what a shaper can with a a 2$HHS lathe tool bit you can make/sharpen yourself. see

Unk'a George (George McDuffee ===================================

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred.

A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world.

I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

Robert Menzies (1894-1978), Australian Liberal politician, prime minister.

Dovetails, particularly non standard ones..beg for a shaper.

Gunner

"Deep in her heart, every moslem woman yearns to show us her t*ts" John Griffin

Yes.

Gunner

"Deep in her heart, every moslem woman yearns to show us her t*ts" John Griffin