Making friends with a shaper

[Sunset Machine]

It's worse than that. Got 'em for $250 each.

Oddball stuff apparently. Both seem to be from a time before they went into full production, based on what I can glean from the Cope's book and patent lookups.

Now there's a tip. For the life of me couldn't figure out how to change the stroke on the shaper. Then I got smart and looked up the patent - and there was a full set of instructions and parts from 1906.

http://www.google.com/patents/US835543