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5 inch shaper
This is my little hand powered traveling head shaper. I copied many details from small machines like Perfecto, Adept, and Bradley, but also from some old full size shapers.
I changed the arrangement to make it more compact and portable, with the feed handle higher up and the feed screw farther back than on those. The heavy rectangular base has t-slots on the front and on the top and the whole working part can be repositioned or removed as easily as the two tables I have for it, so that the machine can be mounted directly onto work. I built it planning to add automatic feed and a motor drive as I needed them, but haven’t done either yet.
It takes a pretty good cut! But that depends on the “motor,” too. It has about 8” cross feed and 1-1/2” down feed, and the overall size is about 16x16x16”. I think it weighs a little over 100lbs.
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E. H. Knight’s 3” stroke shaper from the October 9, 1952 issue of Model Engineer
Very short webcam video:
https://youtu.be/bprST57ENtg
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Clark,
That is a very nice concept you came up with and very well executed. I always follow your projects as they are interesting to me.
Keep up the good work!
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Thanks, Subtlehustle - thanks, Dick - it’s been a good little worker and I can do things with it that I can’t do with other tools.
One thing, the way it’s arranged, overalls - or a bib! - are pretty much required using it.
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Threesixesinarow,
Congrats on your Homemade Tool of the Week award!
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Wow! Thanks, it means a lot to me.
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Thanks, Dick,
It was an interesting project that really pushed the limits of my skills and of my tools - it’s really not much smaller than those - but it’s satisfying to use and has really surprised me what I can do with it.
A lot of the machining was done with a Unimat headstock strapped to my Atlas mill.
I tried to evoke some of the details from a much older planer built just down the road here. Putnam planer, ca.1845
- Clark
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