Hi Greg, the problem Mark ran into primarily had to do with some odd decisions Minimax made with respect to RPM options running on 60HZ North American power. THat's not been an issue with any of the Felder machines I've looked at because they compensate for the 50/60hz power issue with either pully sizes or different motors. Long story short, they're smarter than MiniMax because the RPM options they leave you with are consistent with "industry standards" for tooling.
As a newbie I suggest you use Man rated, chip limiting tooling. Much safer and has been required in Europe for some time now.
As Mark suggest, come back with the RPM options you have just to double check. Once you get into it, you'll love your shaper....very versatile machine and you have a good one.
B
Edit: Just looked up your machine, and it seems you have great RPM options that will allow you to run a good assortment of tooling. As Mark suggest, the style of head that allows you to change the profile by changing the knives makes most sense for lower production users. While buying limiters does increase the cost, it also makes for much safer tooling. This would be a perfect head for your machine:
http://whitehill.tools/catalogue/#page=93 Page 93.