WM Shinglemaker

[Rod]

I was wondering if anyone has used one and how did they like it.

[Kevin]

I don't have one but I want one.
The problem is I have to travel about two days to get one.
Not sure how much the shipping would be but I'll be finding out.

[moeman10]

I have this lapsiding shinglemaker which a friend and I made some oak (red & white) shingles,using crosstie cutoffs from a local circle mill. It worked okay the tie blocks had been under cover about a year and were a little hard. There is a lot of vibration with the 9 inch blocks. You have to be very careful not jerk them out of the clamps,which are a little Mickey Mouse. In fact I drilled the clamp faces and screwed sheet metal screws from the outside so the points stick into the block. You can imagine a 7 x 9 x 16 inch oak block loose on your band blade!!! Makes great shingle wedges to level up my mill. Orange paint & MFS blades!!

[Tim]

Ken Bonter (Cedar Ridge Sawmills) in Marmora, Ontario builds an attachment for bandmill to manufacture shingles. He was asking a $1000 for the attachment alone. I had asked him about a head on legs with the shingle attachment, he was asking $7000.
We wound up buying an old hamilton circular shingle mill. Decent machine despite the age, had to do a pile of work to it though. Pour bearings, clean the saw, add an engine ( that is really too small ) Maybe someday I'll actually get a picture of it up here...

[Rod]

I was going to use it for oak singles and hemlock and lap siding

[Tobacco Plug]

I've used mine for lap siding, but not shingles.  Worked great for siding, though.  I cut 6 inch wide and 8 inch wide stuff.  The biggest problem was with the handling of the cants.  Ideally you would have a loader to move the cants and reload them onto the lap siding attachment when you have squared up all your material. :D

[ARKANSAWYER]

  I got one and use it mostly to make siding out of cedar.  It works pretty good.   I have made shingles and green white oak does pretty good on it.  Wished it had a better clamp system that would hold lower down on the cant.
ARKANSAWYER