Typically you only go with a shaper for 1 of two reasons.
1. If you need to spin bigger bits then you can do safely in a router.
2. This is a production machine that will be running for hours a day,
every day.
Otherwise, a router is probably a more cost effective solution.
Or in other words, I would say it is the very rare hobbiest that would
need a shaper and only some production shops use them. Basicially, if
you are a cabinet shaop and making your own doors, you might want a 3
head shaper.
In article <fm5He.8364$Zt.245@okepread05>, oleblue <[email protected]> wrote:
>What are the pros and cons for shaper/router vs router?? I need information.
>Jim
Hmmph. I guess Google must be broken again today. I hate it when that happens.
This is one of the more frequent discussion topics here; in fact, it was just
discussed last week. A Google Groups search on this newsgroup, and the words
"shaper" and "router", will turn up all of those discussions.
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=shaper+router&as_ugroup=rec.
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