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Thanks for reviewing this. I would buy this in a heartbeat because I made a larger top and have first hand experience with the gradual and imperceptible dip that comes over time with routing further away from the tape field.
Which is to say that when you move the router out toward the edge furthest away from the workstation, there is an issue of sagging by a few thousandths of an inch. That itself does not seem like it would affect much, but it does in the fact that the cut becomes less than perfectly perpendicular.
I realized this when I examined results on hand planes that I make with the Shaper Origin on the Workstation atop an extended shelf. I was curious if the Shaper Origin could be coaxed into producing a ready surface for the sole of the plane right off the cut. If I rotated the parts of the plane to place the sole closest to the workstation instead of furthest, I get better results with less post-processing to get that work-ready sole of each plane body.
Which is to say that when you move the router out toward the edge furthest away from the workstation, there is an issue of sagging by a few thousandths of an inch. That itself does not seem like it would affect much, but it does in the fact that the cut becomes less than perfectly perpendicular.
I realized this when I examined results on hand planes that I make with the Shaper Origin on the Workstation atop an extended shelf. I was curious if the Shaper Origin could be coaxed into producing a ready surface for the sole of the plane right off the cut. If I rotated the parts of the plane to place the sole closest to the workstation instead of furthest, I get better results with less post-processing to get that work-ready sole of each plane body.
