I have a friend who makes beautiful Hal Taylor chairs. The time it takes to make one of those beauties is mind bending, and a lot of that time is with a grinder and profile disk to shape the pieces. Noisy, dusty beyond belief, and fairly high stress work. Looking at the parts it seems to me a router duplicator would be just about the perfect machine for rough shaping most of the parts, eliminating most of the grinder work.

Long winded way to ask if anyone here has a router duplicator. If so, what do you use it for and are you satisfied with the ease of use and quality of the parts it produced? And, lastly, do you think it could be used for rough shaping the parts of a Hal Taylor rocker?

Thanks very much.

John