Martin-
I have gathered from pictures in your earlier posts that you are a machinist.
This will probably make sense to you. I have made a system that mounts on the rail for my planer to cut gradual profiles on longish lengths, with a router and template follower. I have never used it for bending forms because it would not save time for the typical forms or work i get. But a system like this could generate a long M/F form for production. Such as an S-curve.....
As you know, remove the router & with a round nose stick tool in the clapper, it could do steel or Al. :grin-square:
This is sort of pool related - I have shown in the past that the planer is how i make shaft blanks, with a set of centers on the table & a tracer on the left column.
smt
SMT
While I've a machinist training and some working experience I'm only a hobby machinist. Actually I'm mechanical designer, I design tooling and machinery but I've always been facinated by the manufacturing processes and machine tools.
I really like this setup, it's creativity at his best. From this post and your post on Practical machinist it looks like you have a very nice collection of vintage machine tools.
Thanks again for posting all those great ideas.
Martin