By all means make things to "your liking"! I just wanted to point out my observation that I have seen so many start out making mod's, drawings, and other than wood patterns that never got finished due to all the complex stuff! Probably the hardest part of making a machine is accurate patterns, scraping and trueing surfaces and such.
I just posted some photos of a few shaper patterns and materials I used to build them. I believe it took me about 4 hours to build these start to finish? and about a week of part time work to build the complete shaper set!
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Casting in iron is great once you work out the bugs of doing it at home by yourself, but Gingery machines work very well as light duty hobby machines a described in his books!
Cheers Wonk
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