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Yup, clearly there's a strong competitive product to what I'm offering. But I developed my feeder to address the Baby Feeder's shortcomings (which I was all too familiar with) for my own use, and succeeded so well that I'm offering it to others.

Here are the Little Proteus's advantages over the BF ...

With power feed, you can rip strips for boats from 3/4" cedar like that 2 at a time with 2 saw blades and spacer. Best to use 7-1/4" 1/6" kerf blades, and splitters in custom insert for both blades.

This guy used 4 blades at a time! https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/gang-sawing/

I used to ...

All the side-pressure stresses are internal to the fence and feeder,
Perfect description of the fence issue. The Shopsmith 520 fences are , at least in theory, perfect vehicles for the Little Proteus. They have a wide enough platform, and they clamp in back. The 510 fence will require a plywood ...

Another issue on resawing is lowest speed varies from drill to drill -- a lot! Several allow feed speeds as slow as about 2 fpm, which is actually about right, maybe even a little fast for a SS resawing 6" of hardwood. See: https://powerfeeder.alladd.com/about%20_drills.html

One of my customers ...

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Small band saws present minor, easily solved issues. As standard construction, the Little Proteus requires 6 -5/8" or so under the guides for getting into optimal resaw position, slicing veneers. So on 6" resaw height ...

Welcome to the forum! Glad you were able to get in as a member. Are the rollers parallel to the fence in your design or is there a cant to keep the workpiece registered to the fence?

Thanks RF Guy, and excellent questions. My best effort at answering below...


That's easily user adjustable. The ...

OK, forum registration bug fixed, and I'm now a member!

The best way to get more information about my power feeder is to look at my videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLytURR_ilfek9mW1MYKWkKRuZ1e7S3WYe

I'm a rank amateur video maker, but if you have the patience there's a lot of ...