Running a shaper - the compound

[Sunset Machine]

(09-11-2012, 08:29 PM)SnailPowered Wrote: So there really isn't anything a shaper will do that a mill can't? I don't mean to sound like a smart ass, that is just the question that came up as I was reading this thread. The shaper seems really cool but the more I started thinking about it it seemed a mill would do the same work.

That's pretty much true, although I do like the fact I don't have to buy expensive cutters for it, and sharpening square bits of HSS is a breeze. That pegs it for me.