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   robkelly1 | Dec 11, 2003 04:18am | #1

   1.5 hp is not enough to do doors for houses or full cuts on 3"+ mouldings.

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   fdampier5 | Dec 11, 2003 07:09am | #2

   I had the jet version of the same shaper,  great shaper,  not a great production shaper (where you expect it to remove a great big chunk of wood in a single pass)  for that I went to the 3 hp shaper.   If like me you intend to make a whole house full of raised panels ya' needs more grunt! 'iffin you're gonna do general shaping it will be fine..

     Major step up from the router in a lift table stuff thu. 

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   cutawooda | Dec 11, 2003 07:11pm | #3

   while I have your attention,....I posted question in tools...What is the name of the router bit that allows you to pull open doors and drawers without hardware....I have a client who wants no knobs. She said a finger slot would be ok but I think that would look tacky,..I would rather use a bit that "under chamfers"  for a place to grab. Dont know the name of it..Maybe it is just "door edge bit."

   one more thing,...I was looking at some kraftmaide cabinet door edges...I noticed that they have this bit, but at the side edges of the door is is only under- cut about 1 degree, but on the top and the bottom door edges it is under- cut about 3 degrees. When you look at the face of the door it is as if there was only one bit used...how did they do that and why...why not use the same bit or same degree of under-cut on all the edges of the door. Did they run an edge sander down the top and botom edge to give it more degree. Would they have gone through that much trouble?

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   Raehm | Dec 11, 2003 11:36pm | #4

   I had the small Grizzly shaper and sold it because the table seem very small and the spindle lock caused the spindle to deflect. This didn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I have since replaced it with the small Shop Fox which is slightly more expensive but a MUCH more substantial machine. It's on sale at tool corral for a good price.

   http://tool-corral.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/page84.html