Another intro

[mcostello]

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.

[Piggiron]

Welcome Mark.
Nice looking piece. Were you using an indexer to rotate the bushing or are the holes used to index around ?

[Adasha_Machining]

Welcome. I'd like to see more of that shaper.
I have a 16" shaper but haven't used it in some time now.

[Piggiron]

I don't have one and I'd like to see more of it too. We like pictures !

[34_40]

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

[chips and more]

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.

[mcostello]

I used a Starrett precision level across dowel pins. Pictures as soon as I can find them.

[chips and more]

That's a clever idea/method!

[OldCarGuy]

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.



Here's the old girl in action taking a small pass of a block of hardened 4140...

[TerryWerm]

Very nice work, Mark, and welcome aboard!  Glad to have you here, and thanks for posting an introduction!