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Glad you liked CB, yes did dovetails on shaper.
Here's a link with a good description of the process, I ground my tool with more clearance than his, more like 50 degrees.
http://artfulbodger.net/docs/shaper/dovetail/index.html
You can do lots of things without a vise, just cramp stuff onto the table, you can fix a bar or angle section across the X or Z axis or both and clock it square, this will mean you can quickly reposition work easily and cramp it down again.
Good one, the details help nail the process in my mind. When watching Rudy do it the camera was kinda far away and he was so matter of fact I thought I got the idea. Until I went to cut the v in the little lantern vise and chickened out.
I know all about "cramping" in trying to figure out if the problem was the vise or the shaper I got info here from some helpful about toe clamps. So I used one of my cast angles as a backstop and used the toe clamp. For the first time I was able to make truly flat square cuts. So I knew it wasn't the shaper. Digging deeper into the vise I found the shwangle jaws. And on it goes.