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   WoodBeaver | Dec 24, 2002 04:30am | #1

   Hi,

   Delta shaper/ router. Yes I bought one last year to make some moulding for my house. Figured it would be great. Interesting concept and reasonably priced......But.

   Delta advertises a 3 lipped cutter head that attaches to a spindle and makes it a real shaper not a router in a table. It comes with a 1/4' and 1/2' collet. As for the 3 lipped knives, they discontinued them before they sold any!!! If you wanted it for router bits only then it is a good machine. Stable and powerful enough if you take it a little easy on it in hardwood. The big cutters had to be cut in 2 passes. All in all not to bad for the weekender.

   I bought myself a Porter Cable 3 1/4 hp router and I just use that in the Bosch router table. It works really well and I like this a lot more than the router/shaper. Lots of power. It costs more to set up by about $175 Canadian (so these days thats about $5 US. LOL)  Really good in the nasty curly stuff.

   Final thought is the router/ shaper is good if you don't want the 3 lipped HSS cutters. Oh yeah, the dust collection on the fence worked really well! I used my Rigid vac on it and it was like magic! All the dust was gone!!

   Hope that this helps

   WoodBeaver