Hi Mac, Continuing my usual position of being squarely on both sides of every issue, I have to muse about shifting shapes. Here we have a situation in which we spend hours deciding on the best lathe we can afford. A lathe that is superbly designed to make wood round. A lathe with perfectly aligned ways and heavy duty concentric bearings to assure that.
You know the drill. Once we have such a machine then we turn our efforts toward defeating its purpose. "We" includes me as I've spent many happy hours devising cheap and dirty home made devices to turn wood off center or eccentrically.
I can understand why you and I like to turn wooden objects that are not for us the boring repeated round shapes. Do you find that your customers are as thrilled as we are with shifted shapes and bizarre forms or do they prefer symmetry? Art is good, sometimes function is better. When you are up the creek, a purpose designed paddle beats an artistic design every time.
To be honest Mac, my post is pure boiler plate. Just some wadding to add to our sparse 63 posts this morning. In no way is it a criticism of your interest in the Shapeshifter. If it wasn't so expensive I'd buy one myself. In the meantime I look forward to our fellow members answering your query with more intelligent posts. :)
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