Making a gib using the shaper

[Toolmaker51]

responding to Frank S, *4, and onlookers. We have the job shop not production facility mind-frame.

Shapers and people who appreciate them, don't party with types who can't get their heads around "simple, reliable, low cost'.
The idea of lower stress material removal, the difference of single pointing vs turning cutters is key. They're ignoring how most metals originate, being rolled, makes grain lengthwise. The other is cutter form, try milling press brake dies. Fast is not always better.

Hence forward, I decree phrase "can make anything but money" cancelled. No, won't make more money; there's a chance to get some money back.

Many see vertical bandsaws same way, in both perspectives; ideal or superfluous.