My first experience with woodworking was serving as a boat builder s apprentice
as a teenager. I enjoyed working with wood so much that I later enrolled in
a furniture building program at Boston University. At both places I found that each
of my instructors or mentors had his own favorite tool that could be made to perform
many tasks besides the obvious ones. One teacher might use a table saw with an angled
fence to cut cove moldings; someone else would fit a radial arm saw with a disk sander
or attach cutters to mill profiles. At the school and in the boat shop, the spindle shaper
was more often used as a sawhorse or a workbench than as a tool. I was left with the
impression that the shaper cuts profiles in the edges of boards and that was about all.
It was not until I opened my own shop that I realized how much more versatile
the tool really is. I ,)e had my 3-horsepower tilting arbor shaper for almost 10 years
now and I would be lost without it. Woodworkers have personal styles, and I tend to
be very machine-oriented. More and more, I find that the hand tools that I once used
daily now sit idle in my tool cabinet. For me, end results and speed matter most and
I find that the shaper outperforms my old hand tools hands down.
Combined with a decent powerfeed unit, a shaper can cut dadoes better than a table
saw and dean up an edge as well as a small jointer. If you have a collet that accepts
router bits, you ll quickly find that the shaper outclasses even the largest of routers,
with a range of cutters that is unmatched. I recently bought a crown molding cutter
for my shaper. It s a stacking system so I can either use the complete assembly to make
a cut or install the individual parts to calve separate profiles.
That s only the beginning. Add rub collars and large-diameter bearings and i expand
the range of the shaper even more. With these inexpensive accessories I can make a
template out of scrap stock and affix it to my good stock. The shaper then acts like
a big flush trimmer and I can get perfectly uniform finished pieces every time.
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