I’m no expert, but a router table is a router table, and a shaper is a shaper.
There are table saws and chop saws, same analogy.?
You don’t wear your workbooks to Church.?
That’s what I think...
Bill Belanger
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I am moving into a new shop soon. My old router table stayed at my previous house so I either need to build a new one, or find a suitable replacement.?
I have a KF700 with a great shaper already in it. So I am considering skipping a dedicated router table. I can use my palm or plunge router when i need to take the tool to the work. And I can use the shaper when I need to take the work to the tool. And it would be pretty great to have a flat cast iron table and a slider attached to my "router table".
In my research, the biggest issue with running router bits in a shaper is that the shaper will run too slow for the high speed that many smaller bits demand. However it looks like Felder sells a that has a pulley?sized appropriately to get 15,000rpm. That sounds pretty fast to me.?
It seems like most palm routers run between 16k-22k, and big plunge routers run as low as 9k and up to 22k. Seeing that it seems like it would be reasonable to run even small bits in a shaper running at 15k RPM.
Does anyone have any wisdom to impart here? Is 15k fast enough? Are there other things to consider that i'm overlooking??
Bill Belanger