Sooo...... I appear to have bought myself a Shaper. Oops (when will I learn to stop buying machine tools!)
Before I bought the milling machine & lathe, a kindly soul sent me complete copies of Darrell Holland's "How to run a Vertical Mill" & "How to run a Lathe" video tutorials - these were brilliant at explaining how the machines worked, how to set them up, use them, etc. As a result, when the machines arrived & I got them wired in, I really felt like I already knew them...
Not so, the shaper...
I understand at a VERY basic level how it works (tool goes back & forth over workpiece, which moves either left/right or up/down depending on how you configure the machine, as the toolbit comes out it scrapes a defined amount of metal off.
What I don't have a clue about is things like; setting up the angle of the tool, griding the tool (what shapes?), cutting dovetails, etc...
So - is there, out there, a handy reference guide to the care & feeding of metal shapers? Or even better, a video instruction guide?
The machine I am picking up next week:
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