You are such a down to earth fellows

Even tought I have a serious flu now I can still hear Seirens humming. My garage is pretty tight now. I probably could scrap two useless lathes and organize pile of mystery tool parts (I have lost there small revolverlathe basket case and such).
I'm blessed with 3*25A feed /triphase, I'm soo ready to rescue just one more functional piece of history.
I really should read a book or something of thsi topic. I see some people getting mesmerized just out of word "shaper" and then some says. "Jup you can do dovetails, but you have to grind two identical tools" or "yup, you can do gears, but you need n+1 precission form tools to make that gear" and such. I don't know which opinion to trust to.
Like:
I like to use band saw and milling machine with saw blade to cut and rough pieces for turning/milling. I would hate to use abrassive disk and angle grinder just too much fire hazzard and noice to my liking.
I rather use carbide tools, although HSS would be more flexible and cheaper on the long run. Because of the grinding.
And I don't have ID/OD grinder, which ofcourse would be really-really nice sometimes.
There is a catch. I could overcome my prejudices for grinding if I would buy a decent TCG, they are here roughly same weight/volume/price than a shaper.....but I have space only to one such a large thing. I have a little of a problem here.
To make a judgement call I need to educate myself. I don't see myself trading many used tools. Even buying them is a hurdle.
I have almost given up using scrapbinium TM, but then I got steady supply of tempering steel rods (probably have now someting like 200 kg from 14 to 25 mm OD and some short bigger sections) wonderfull and predictable stuff to outside turn and mill, but proverbial pain on the shoutside to punch holes into. Where on earth is free maching steel when you need some modest amount of it?
Pekka - made out of flunssium and snoothnium now but wish to get well soon