My favorite part is the sandals.

I have not seen an attachment for the shaper of this type in forty years. Nice job working on the gear.

Beautiful design and workmanship. Thanks for sharing. (I knew I should never have sold my shaper, lol)

Great work! I learned in an old dirt floored blacksmith shop, your workshop makes me miss it!

Fantastic, I have some machines but the one I most admire is the planer, a simple machine and few are interested but it is very useful in small companies, greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

You now have another Aussie Subscriber. Love your work and you workshop Mate. John NSW.

Ace love these no bullshit shaper vids

Great looking setup there.

This method of gear generation is how a Sunderland gear planer works, using a rack form cutter to generate a gear tooth form on a round work piece. Nice work!

Always racing to see a shaper at work, I have a dedicated chair next to mine , costs me hours when I should be doing other stuff. Love the workshop ! Greets from wet,cold and un secure England .

You made that!.....Amazing!

Awesome Work. Greetings from Venezuela.

I would have loved a camera angle along the direction of the tool movement and looking at the slot between two teeth being formed. What would also have been great: showing the motion where the table is cranked back to the starting position in the beginning, as this makes tangible the way the axes are coupled and how the motion is orchestrated. Very nice setup!

It’s really awesome seeing different approaches to this problem! The solution I implemented was due to not having the gears of the pitch required, or a rack, or indexing head available. In practise we use the tensioned wire approach to drive our embroidery machine pantographs at high speed and they maintain 0.1mm positional accuracy day in, day out. The only other setup items required are a disc turned to PCD and a disk cut with index slots for the desired number of teeth. Worth a look in my channel if you are interested in that method, which also includes a build series in the playlist

Nice to see your old shaper working. Mine is older, doesn't even have a clutch, you have to turn the motor on/off. The ways on mine are in similar shape to yours. I plan to scrape someday, but for now it gets the job done. Enjoy your videos.

Awesome setup! I even love the oiling wick you have on your cutter. I tend to put the oil right on top of the tool as well and let it run down. But this is a much better idea

Amazing, never seen a shop like that. No walls, sand floors and flip flops on the feet. I bet the machines take a beating and get covered in sand.

You have one of the neatest shops I have ever seen. Everything is sitting on a packed dirt floor. Any issues with ants? I just a hobbyist machinist if that much, my career is welding/fabricating. I was a tube welder and a pipe welder among other things. You have to be a genius to keep up with you, your videos are great, and I will surely watch them several times to get all I can out of them. I only have a lathe to work with, wanted to find a milling machine but it's ridicules what some folks are asking for them. I thought about a shaper if you can find one in good shape that is. Seems to me that you could do a lot of machining with a shaper alone that is after you learn all the features and how to operate it. Anyway, thanks so much for sharing your skills and videos. Paul Greenlee

The only real way to cut gears on a shaper that I've seen on youtube so far ;-)

Smart solution!

Love It ! Thank you

Good work Neal

Hi Neal, i'm a new subscriber. Very interesting setup on the shaper. I hope we'll see more shaper videos. PS; Nice safety shoes you have :-)

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice project. Nice work

perfect حب العمل يساوي الإتقان bravo 👍

now that was very intresting son .

Good idea

I will figure out how he did that!!! Thanks for sharing.

make more videos! very interesting! thx!!!

good video

Brilliant

Love your work mate! You wouldn’t be a marine engineer by chance?

I would think whatever change gears you choose it would need to be 1:1 between the rack and the cut gear. In the 48 tooth example I'm guessing you have a 48 tooth on the rack and two 60 tooth gears at the driving end. Or another way of thinking about it would be cut gear (48) + 60 tooth welded gear = # of teeth (108) required on the rack side. Am I missing something?

Best part... "I've never seen a video where they would read the manual..." ;) LOL Actually this whole video is awesome presentation of knowledge. Thank You very much form Finland!

You're not at lightning ridge are you Neal?

Hi Neal. That's brilliant. So do you change the gears like on a lathe to obtain different pitches? I like the paper towel trick to hold the coolant. Love your airy workshop. Tony

No I haven't watched the whole vid yet, but the greatest part of this setup is that the cutter is a rack form not involute, so it is perfect for generating any number of teeth. I want a shaper.

Kindly show ur entire workshop n all machines ......

This is fantastic, if you wouldn't mind could you do an in depth video of the gear cutting unit? How it was built? I love to build one for the baby Boxford, excellent video!

The ol´good involute method! If a "modern" machinist wonders how this works, his brain will explode!

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It's brilliant, elegant design, do I understand correctly that it is the pitch circle diameter that needs to rotate at exactly 1:1 with the table traverse? I also have a dirt floor workshop with no walls, mine has the disadvantage of being in Wales, so dirt sometime means mud. I have heard of something I think it's called 'concrete' which may improve things one day.

Neal, I have a Värnamo SH-2 14" shaper. I've been thinking of making a gear cutter for mine. I like the rack driven design, most I've seen use a cable tangent to the pitch diameter. The video cut off right when you were describing the gearing. It appears you have 48 tooth on the rack and a couple 60 tooth gears opposite. Is that correct?

_Hi Neal, I love to see "boot strap" engineering in which you generate an involute from a trapezoidal cutter!_ _How did you pre-slit the tooth spaces in your blank? Did you use the shaper with live advancement disengaged?_ _By the way, what was your module/DP and pressure angle on this job?_

so it starts off cutting at a tangent and then the rotation brings the gear into the verticle pane of the cutter ?

Your shop is a bit open to the elements. Do you have a way to cover the side wall to keep rain out of the shop ??? Thanks

How did you make the blue thing? I would like to see that. Especially the indexing part.

Pravoooooo prof

I like the precision ruler ... 🙄😂

Belle le infradito antinfortunistiche!

An outdoor machine shop ? I don’t get it, seems kinda risky.

If it is a 60 tooth gear being cut then i would think it needs to be a 60 tooth gear in mesh with the driving rack or a ratio train of gears that equate to the same.

суров !!!1

Didn't get it, how You know when the gap cut is done and it's time to move to the next tooth. Rustinox recently showed his way of shaper cutting a tooth wheel. -didn't understand him either... Your foot ware is not very protective. Don't You chips and swarf in Your feet?

Steel toe Jesus sandals

Please put some safety shoes on!

First of all I like the safety shoes, secondly that gadget is too complicated its much faster and easier on the milling!!!!!!!