Originally Posted by
Jim Flamming
That's the one. I bought it because I am slowly learning that my lack of a woodworking shop means that building things from scratch is seldom worth it for me. By the time I trek back and forth to the neighbors to use his shop to build something I could have the item here and be completing the real projects. Neighbor and I are building a rough beveler now using our own design ideas plus borrowing a couple design features we saw on that beveler at the Mason show. That beveler costs $625 delivered. By the time I bought a router, three fluted bit, UHMW for the roughing form, and all the other parts and pieces, I had over $300 into the project. Then add the HOURS we have spent dinking with it trying to make it "perfect" (we still are not finished), and I can honestly say that the smartest thing I could have done was just bought the stupid beveler. I would have had several blanks tapered by now! As it stands the winter is almost over and I have no blanks to show for it. Life lesson - I need to do a better job of picking my battles!
So after that experience, the extra $100 it probably cost me to have someone else build this wrapper was well worth it to me.
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