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11th February 2015, 06:53 PM #1Awaiting Email Confirmation
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A great stuff up
Yesterday the old adage of measure twice cut once didn't kind of work.
I measured it 3 times and still stuffed it up.
Had the piece in the taper jig ... all looked good. Nice taper for the leg of a coffee table and having about 40mm of square at the top.
Fired up the table saw and off we go ..... the slice didn't fall off but the saw blade went into the jig stop. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh....
This was the first cut and I only had enough timber for the four legs. Cursing and swearing I walked out of the workshop. WIP went out too....
Calmed down enough, so just continued to rip the tapers as far as I could then just snap the piece off. Get out trusty No 6 and finish the job on the taper.
The taper was now from the bottom to the top. Put the mortices in and then called it quits. Sat down with a few beers and pondered how I could do the tenons.
Spent most of today cutting tenons with a taper on the sholder. A glue up the waited for an eternity for the glue to go off.
A few coats of UBeaut White Shellac (still lots more to go) and this is what the client will now get. Hope she likes it.....
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11th February 2015, 07:39 PM #2Senior Member
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Good save! Tapered mortises must be fun!
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11th February 2015, 07:47 PM #3
Now that you have told us it's sticks out like a sore thumb. I think it would be noticeable to fellow wood workers.
One thing comes to mind, what if the client wants more than one? Will you go the full taper or just part way.
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11th February 2015, 07:59 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi I cant comment on you tecnique for the table saw as I have never cut a tapered leg that way (dont have a table saw)
It is probably easier to cut the mortices first although if you stuff up the tapering you have wasted even more time.
Personally I never cut the taper right to the top of the leg, I always have a transition from parallel to taper.Saves you the problem of cutting tapered faces on the aprons too.
normally I start the taper further down from the depth of the apron.Usually taper mine with the router and a jig and fine tune with a hand plane.I always taper my square legs on all 4 faces but the tradition in the 18th century quite often was to taper off only the 2 inner faces of the legs, this saved a lot of work and looked very elegant.Don't be tempted to taper the outer 2 surfaces of the leg or your furniture will look like it's had a drink or 2.
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11th February 2015, 09:43 PM #5Awaiting Email Confirmation
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The mortices are on the tapered side of the legs.
I have a hollow chisel morticer which made that part easy. It was the taper on the tenon as I could not use the tenoning attachement on the router table.
So all the tenons had to be done by hand. Most of the angles were at 1.5 degrees but a couple were just under that.
Dry fit, check for square, check for gaps, a trim here a trim there, dry fit and check and repeat as necessary until all good.
Took over 1/2 a day just doing that.
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11th February 2015, 09:51 PM #6Awaiting Email Confirmation
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I didn't mean to cut it to the top of the leg. Just stuffed up in setting the jig. To cut a taper on a table saw you start at the bottom of the leg and cut to the top leaving a parallel at the top.
The tapers on this are only on the inside. I must admit it would be a lot of fun () to do a full taper on all four sides.
I usually leave a parallel on the top but ...... Murphy's Law kicked in.
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11th February 2015, 10:03 PM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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11th February 2015, 10:49 PM #9
Chances are your client won't notice and will be ecstatic at what you have produced
Nicely doneThe person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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