The Logan 7-inch shaper (real maximum stroke 7.5") incorporated the well-known Logan variable stroke-rate control, activated by a handwheel mounted on the front of the stand. 

Although robust, and fitted with a swivelling base, the Logan shaper vice was rather tall compared with that fitted to many of its competitors. The box table, unlike the later 8" version, had no T slots in the top and a single V, with tapped holes for clamping bolts, down the right- hand side.

The eccentric control which varies the speed of the table travel was identical on both 7 and 8-inch versions. The handwheel in the background is non-original, but fitted by the previous owner to the manual stroke advance control to eliminate having to use the standard crank handle. This is a sensible and worthwhile modification to any shaper so equipped - it saves looking for the handle which, if accidentally left in place when the machine is started, is likely to fly off and deal you or an onlooker a painful if not fatal blow.

Unlike the more rigidly supported box on the 8-inch shaper with its crank-handle controlled lift, the 7-inch used a single screw (with a very inconveniently located handwheel underneath and to the back of the box) to both lift and support it; once in position a round nut was screwed down to lock the setting. The screw was supported on a rectangular plate which was allowed to slide along a machined track as the table moved.