Posted in quest on Jun 2nd, 2014
Over the past week or so, several of you have reached out asking, speculating, wondering what it’s like to operate the Sagar Spindle Moulder with the box joint attachment. I always try to give the people what they want, so here goes: I moved the machine from the garage over to the shop this past […]
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Posted in quest on May 28th, 2014
Lately, I’ve been buying shapers like it’s nobody’s business (meaning I have no business owning this many shapers) A few weeks ago, I received this little gem from the United Kingdom: It’s a very sweet little Sagar shaper with a Wadkin rolling table attachment and a very large set of box joint cutters on it. […]
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Posted in quest on May 3rd, 2014
On a recent trip to England, this little spindle moulder caught my eye: I had been looking for a cheap shaper I could steal the fence from. I have a few European machines that are missing the split style fences that mount into the dovetailed slots on the table. As an example, this Pierre […]
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Posted in quest on Feb 14th, 2012
I found this Wadkin EP shaper on e-bay this morning. Interestingly, the table appears to have been rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This basically moves the operator position to the right side of the shaper. I’m trying to figure out why you’d do this. The shaper on the left is the machine in question. The […]
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