Australian Wood Review

Shaper Origin

Like many other woodworkers I had been avidly following the development of the Shaper Origin for the past few years; curious to see whether it lived up to the hype.

The first caveat is that the Shaper is currently not available for sale in Australia but I have been running the US version through a step-down voltage transformer with no issues to report after six weeks usage. The second thing to clear up is that it won’t be replacing traditional

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