Recent content by tbar

Hi, I'll get some pics together as soon as I find them. One thing I can think of now about building this shaper or I guess any machine is accuracy. I always read about others that have built the gingery shaper or the lathe is problems with chatter. Those problems can be eliminated by taking...

Hi, finally have video to look at, as you can see, it took me three tries before I got the tool bit ground correctly. The shaper itself works pretty good, its my body and brain thats going to hell. T

Hi, I haven't forgot to take a video of the shaper cutting steel. Needed to leave for awhile but when I get things back in order will get the video done. T

When building I added 5-.001 shims at the ways to allow for future adjustment, after about 10 hrs of use I needed to remove 1 shim on each side to take up play, since then after many hours of use it has not needed any more adjustments, it seems that the alum gets a hard steel like layer on it...

Hi, yes it does a pretty good job at light cuts around .025 or so. I will be doing some steel in about a week and I can video for you if you would like, then at least you can see how its works on steel. I have cut key ways and mostly squaring up parts. It was used weekly until my health went...