This group is for those interested in the tool kits made in the 1930's-1950's period by the Lewis Machine Tool Co., of San Franscisco and then Los Angeles. These tools are of both the metal working machine tool types, such as Shapers and Horizontal Milling Machines, and of the numerous woodworking machine tool kits that they also made.

Also of interest are Shapers, Milling Machines, and Lathes made by such manufacturers as Jones/Pootatuck, Minton, W.F.and John Barnes, Marvin (milling attachments), Rusnok, Industrolite, Armor, Boynton & Plummer, Childs, and others. Also, any smallish hobbyest size manual or powered PLANERS are of group interest.

A new topic (as of March 2006) is a discussion on the design and fabrication of home-brewed CNC shapers.