Help me find a modern use for this tool

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I owe you one Marv. I've been jonesen' for one of those for years. I just assumed they were somehow for a wood planer for like making veneers or something really precise and luckily I don't have a wood planer either.

Only 3-4yrs ago did I find out about shapers upon seeing a couple on the local craigslist. At that time metal planers were mentioned but I've never seen one. I'd not put two and two together until now. So I owe you for keeping from buying another terminally cool tool that I don't have an immediate use for.

I did just find an Atlas 7b shaper that I'd expected to be to expensive but when the guy said $125 and it had everything including the vise I just couldn't pass it up. It also turns out I have several projects it's well suited for and after watching an instruction vid on it is going to be very handy for what I'm doing.

I had guessed I could use the gauge for a machinist jack, but the expense always kept away. Isn't it funny that it's for a defunct machine tool, but still is very expensive. Almost every time I see somebody selling off grandpa' old machinist tools there's one in there, and they are usually the most expensive. I guess because they look on eBay.