I am Mark Costello from Lancaster Ohio and just found the forum. I have a small home based machine shop and do walk in repairs and hobby things. I have all the usual tools. Picture below done on a metal shaper.
Welcome Mark.
Nice looking piece. Were you using an indexer to rotate the bushing or are the holes used to index around ?
Welcome. I'd like to see more of that shaper.
I have a 16" shaper but haven't used it in some time now.
I don't have one and I'd like to see more of it too. We like pictures !
Welcome aboard nice to see here. I think it's great to see a shaper at work, all we ever hear is the negative comments about them
Welcome! And yes, how is the part indexed? Eye ball? I thought I was the only one that used my thumb and eye ball LOL.
I used a Starrett precision level across dowel pins. Pictures as soon as I can find them.
That's a clever idea/method!
Nice work on the spline!
A 30" Cincinnati Shaper was one of the first machines I learned to run nearly 7 decades ago. For years I was on a lookout for a small 7" Atlas. That are impossible to find and or cost a fortune. And finally added this G&E shaper to my garage shop twenty years ago and have since rebuilt it.
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Here's the old girl in action taking a small pass of a block of hardened 4140...
Very nice work, Mark, and welcome aboard! Glad to have you here, and thanks for posting an introduction!