Making friends with a shaper

[Sunset Machine]

(07-20-2014, 12:16 PM)Dr Stan Wrote: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED203130
IMHO one of the best references for machinists.

I have that one and a few others. They're all good, but I still need a dumber book..

The scrap piece I'm practicing on is rather hard. Looks old, has cracks folded in from the steel mill. Rather poor quality I think, but it's been beat on hard enough to mushroom one end a bit. I suspect it's quite a bit older than the shaper.

I'll know more about shapers after I turn it into chips.