Shaper (Missing Shop Manual): The Tool Information You Need at Your Fingertips (Fox Chapel Publishing) Accessories, Setup, Making Cuts, Vacuum Jigs,

Shaper (Missing Shop Manual): The Tool Information You Need at Your Fingertips (Fox Chapel Publishing) Accessories, Setup, Making Cuts, Vacuum Jigs,

This handy pocket-sized guide offers all the tips, tricks, and ideas a woodworker needs to get the most out of their shaper! When you unpack a new shaper, the enclosed manual doesn't venture much beyond basic safety, assembly, and set-up. That leaves some head-scratching when it's time to turn it on and start cutting. Where's the manual that covers all the things your new saw is designed to do? The Missing Shop Manual: Shaper takes that next step with you! In Missing Shop Manual: Shaper , woodworkers will find out how to best utilize this essential workshop tool, and how to get the most for your money by getting the most from your equipment! From carving decorative contours in wood to cutting perfect joints, you'll discover the techniques and tips you need to maximize your saw's performance. Filled with clear diagrams and instructions, this concise, pocket-sized portable manual is ideal for quick reference in the workshop. Dedicated to providing integral information about woodworking tools and techniques that other manuals overlook, the books in The Missing Shop Manual series contain safety facts, explanations about basic project set up, and tips for maximizing tool performance. Even if you've been woodworking for years, you'll wish this was the manual that originally came with your new shaper! I love woodworking. I'm not great at it - I figure it'll take me another 15+ years to hit that magic 10,000 hour mark in the shop to reach an expert's level of craftsmanship. But in the meantime, I try to always have something going on in the shop that either allows me to learn a new skill or get a bit more practice with an older one. Right now, I'm enjoying learning how to properly use my router table. I know how to use a router as a stand-alone device, but the table is going to allow me to branch out and really do some interesting stuff. But mounting the router underneath the table brought with it some questions that required me to dig out the router manual a big white heap of pages that answered my question but not with a lot of enjoyment. I've done this in the past, breaking out my stack of manuals to remind myself how to tune my table saw or replace the blade correctly in my band saw. The operator manuals that come with tools are definitely useful, but they have one glaringly obvious drawback - the manual will tell you how to properly and safely operate a tool, but it won't tell you how to really use it. You won't get the advice that a pro can offer when you're first getting your feet wet with a new tool (well, unless you have access to a few pros). This is exactly the situation I found myself in when I first purchased my circular saw, my table saw, my band saw, and my router. I tell you all this so you'll understand (and not poke too much fun at me) why I grabbed the box from the UPS guy and beat a path to my man cave to tear into the care package sent to me from Fox Chapel Publishing. They've got books on a lot of different subjects from Mennonite Cookbooks to Sewing to Winemaking to Woodburning. But it's their woodworking titles that make me drool, with subjects ranging from furniture making to pinewood derby cars. Tucked in the box were ten little books I've been itching to read and review, and I've just completed the entire set after just a little over a week. If that sounds like a lot of reading in a short time, rest assured that these ten little books are short, easy to read, and sure to be of interest to anyone who has stared at a power tool and wondered how to operate it, how to maintain it, and ultimately how best to use it. The series is called The Missing Shop Manual, and while I certainly hope the library continues to grow, you'll likely find at least one of the books that matches a tool in your shop maybe more. The series claims you'll wish this was the manual that originally came with your insert-tool-name-here. I can't speak for all ten books as I've not yet got a jointer, shaper, or lathe (my wife is grimacing right now as she realizes I don't yet have all the tools I really want), but I can tell you that the claim holds true for my band saw (2-page manual, I kid you not), my router (a bit better manual, but no actual usage examples), and my drill press (a little better with a 3-page manual but half of it was warnings and troubleshooting steps). I'll go ahead and say it - I wasn't really certain how much these little books (most of them averaging less than 150 pages) were going to really help me when I started reading. But after completing the Router and Table Saw books, I couldn't stop smiling. I had already picked up on some of the advice in these books, but there was new stuff in there (to me). Stuff I know I would likely never have figured out without someone with experience telling me. But since I typically work alone and am of the I'll-figure-it-out-on-my-own mentality, I tend to make mistakes often. That's how I learn, I guess. But let's take the Band Saw book, for example. I thought