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Has anyone heard of The Electric Carpenter?
. http://vintagemachinery.org/photoindex/ ... x?id=12501

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It was produced by “The American Floor Surfacing Mach Company” in the 1930s. On is available on Craig’s List in Tahachapi, CA.
. https://bakersfield.craigslist.org/tls/ ... 03644.html

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I had never heard of ShopSmith and assumed that it was completely the result of post-war engineering but I suppose this ingenuity is really the natural progression from America’s agricultural era rural manufacturing that came with the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and early 19th century, and ShopSmith just combined The Electric Carpenter with the refined manufacturing workmanship that did come from World War II production.

Looks like a restoration project for JPG. Have you considered a summer vacation to Bakersfield?

Intriguing! Wish I could touch and feel. More work than I am interested in but still intriguing.

Don't want to copy too much material from the linked site above but it lists these functions:

(1)10" Table Saw with miter gauge, rip fence and blade guard with splitter. The miter gauge includes a stop rod for repetitive same size cross-cutting.
(2)6" Jointer with tilting fence and guard.
(3)14" wood cutting Band Saw with a tilting table. The Band Saw is mounted on hinges and swings down out of the way so as to not impede the capacity of the Table Saw when working with a wide panel by simply loosening 2 latches. When in the horizontal position. The Band Saw assembly rests on a pivoting support leg which folds out of the way when the Band Saw is in the vertical position
(4)7' Wood Lathe with 12" tool rest and tail stock with a #2 morse taper ram with a 4" travel.
(5)Spindle Shaper that operates in forward and reverse and has it's own adjustable fence. It also has a Tenon Jig that rides in the miter gauge slot
(6)Mortiser / Horizontal Borer that can be used to drill holes for doweling or by putting the hollow chisel holder in place will cut a mortise.

That's the basic Shopsmith functions plus some additional tools and accessories.

Heck of a machine for 1931.

That would require a lot of electrolysis. Looks like deeper than surface rust.

An interesting project fer sure.

Yes SS was not the FIRST multi-function machine.

Multiple station power tools were around before the Shopsmith was even an idea. The American Floor Surfacing Machine Company was not the only makers of multi station tools but theirs is a more compact tool than most. The idea of a single bench with multiple tools driven off a singe motor preceded the Shopsmith. I have seen old pictures of three and four tools set up that way. Even Magna sold stands for double tool setups like the one below.

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