When I got my first KF700 with a shaper, it was back in 2001 when several other FOG stalwarts like John Renzetti, John Lawrence, Thomas Haar, and Phillip Davidson got their first shaper, and we were all dumbfounded that there wasn’t a decent training class available. ?So we arranged our own class at the Felder office, and brought in a so-called “expert” to conduct the class. ?The instructor was not a good teacher, ?spending the entire first 4 hours discussing how the class would be conducted and when we could/couldn’t ask questions, etc. ?But together, we learned enough to be less intimidated, stay relatively safe (I consider the shaper one of the most dangerous machines in the shop), and we all ordered tons of Aigner safety gear and shaper cutters, many of which I still have not used.