Mike Heidrick
07-31-2009, 4:48 PM
WOW. I have just started to read this Felder Unofficial Survival Guide book. First off, I do not own any Felder equipment. I have some nice tooling for the Laguna shaper though and wanted to maximize my use of it. This is about the nicest info I have found on setup and using shaper tooling, power feeders, and various other shaper accessories and that is only one chapter.
This book was written by David P Best in 2004 and has info from Brian Lamb, Michael Rylander, Mark Elliott, Art Pentz, and Louis Melo. They sell it through Cafe Press. If anyone has a panel saw (really any tool with a slider), combo machine, large shaper, or you are interested in Aigner saftey add ons - these boys wrote a fantastic book. Book is $95 but short of working in a shop or knowing someone that can teach you some of this stuff - this is one of the best large tool practical guides I have seen.
The shaper info alone goes WELLL beyond the info in Bird's The Shaper Book and Cliffee's Shaper Handbook. Lots of great insert tooling info, setup, referencing, etc. Very cool info.
This book was written by David P Best in 2004 and has info from Brian Lamb, Michael Rylander, Mark Elliott, Art Pentz, and Louis Melo. They sell it through Cafe Press. If anyone has a panel saw (really any tool with a slider), combo machine, large shaper, or you are interested in Aigner saftey add ons - these boys wrote a fantastic book. Book is $95 but short of working in a shop or knowing someone that can teach you some of this stuff - this is one of the best large tool practical guides I have seen.
The shaper info alone goes WELLL beyond the info in Bird's The Shaper Book and Cliffee's Shaper Handbook. Lots of great insert tooling info, setup, referencing, etc. Very cool info.