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   user-5880422 | Dec 11, 2004 07:13pm | #1

   a 2-3hp shaper and a power feeder will do the trick.

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   jako17 | Dec 11, 2004 09:00pm | #2

   My suggestion is to find a millwork shop with a sticker and get them to mill it for you.Making flooring in any real quantity with a shaper is very labourious as the wood needs to be dressed S4S then one pass for the tongue and a second for the groove .I have several shapers with power feed and have done this but it is not very cost effective.A sticker takes time to set up but you put rough sawn lumber in one end and get floooring at the other

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   user-5880422 | Dec 12, 2004 01:50am | #3

   I actually agree with you on the time-and-labor point. Unless you have some material that isn't available as flooring, or has some other redeeming quality, it's hard to justify doing this yourself.

   I think a lot of people figure that the T&G is easy to mil, but they forget that you have to do the ends as well and that can take a 7ell of a lot of time.

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   RickL | Dec 12, 2004 02:13am | #4

   My company makes hardwood flooring and progressed from a double spindle shaper to a $125,000 moulder. We also have a straight line rip saw and large planers and jointers. A smaller moulder such as the Logosol will run around 10,000 for four sided work. As suggested you are better off having it outsourced unless you are willing to take the time to research and invest in a shaper and other machines to handle it. Doing the ends is called endmatching and it's really not necessary to do this. A simple biscuit will suffice if you feel the need to join the ends of the boards.