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router table or shaper
Router Table = Your chance to build The Ultimate Router
Table. Shaper = Don't listen to Tom Watson. UA100 |
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router table or shaper
I think you will find that you would use the router table more if you
actually had both..... A shaper would be nice add on later if you think you needed it. "Rob" wrote in message .com... I am thinking about either a router table or a shaper. Are they basicaly the same thing or do they have different missions? Other then the obvious difference of the router being able to be used outside the table. Rob |
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router table or shaper
Search back...this has been up many times.
The router is more versatile and much safer. Get one and learn to use it. Build a simple table and learn to use that. Then, if yoou know you need it, think about the router. The big difference is that the router follows the board surface. If your wood is twisted, warped, or varies in thinkness, the shaper will not work correctly. If you make your own lumber, or salvage, or just don't get perfedt stock, this will be a problem. The shaper is much more powerful and there's no contest for raising panels with big cutters, BUT there are vertical panel raiser bits that overcome this problem to some extent, I think. I haven't used one, but it seems the answer if you want a wide cut. I think there are much better things to buy, UNLESS you are doing a lot of panels. All the other door cuts are easy with a router, especially in a table. Wilson "Rob" wrote in message .com... I am thinking about either a router table or a shaper. Are they basicaly the same thing or do they have different missions? Other then the obvious difference of the router being able to be used outside the table. Rob |
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router table or shaper
Unless you're doing a lot of production runs on raised panel doors and the
likes a quality router is the way to go. "Rob" wrote in message .com... I am thinking about either a router table or a shaper. Are they basicaly the same thing or do they have different missions? Other then the obvious difference of the router being able to be used outside the table. Rob |
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