Running a shaper - the compound

[Sunset Machine]

A day has passed and I'm half done with a strip of tee nuts. Things are looking OK, but WOW is it slow going compared to making them on a mill. Spent all afternoon on a 15 minute project and only got half way. Fun though, even did the down feed thing with my hand on the compound. Didn't get back in the house until 6pm. That's one notch down the side.

There is definitely a trick to operating these things. Getting the other notch to match will be interesting...