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7th November 2014, 04:11 PM #1
Tapered Table legs
Anyone any tips on how to cut tapered legs for a hall table or an explanation (articles, website, etc) on how its done?
Thanks
KerryKerry Larkan
Melbourne Australia
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7th November 2014, 04:26 PM #2
Most commonly done with a tapering jig on the table saw.
eg: http://www.finewoodworking.com/how-t...nd-faster.aspx
Or you can cut the taper with a bandsaw and clean up with a hand plane."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th November 2014, 04:26 PM #3
This is how I did mine on a Festool CMS table saw
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f58/tapering-jig-cms-189383
It has a sliding table to which the jig was attached. As near as I can tell the tapering jig must slide past the saw blade - I couldn't figure out any other way of doing it. On a "proper" TS you could make a sled that runs in both mitre channels - that will do the same thing.
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8th November 2014, 02:17 PM #4
Thanks everyone. Like everything easy when you see it done and explained.
Many thanks
KerryKerry Larkan
Melbourne Australia
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9th November 2014, 08:02 PM #5
Hi Kerry,
My normal method for tapering legs is to use my jointer. This method gives a very gentle curve to the taper AND leaves a 'foot'.
If you have access to a jointer you might want to look at my thread creatively titled 'tapering legs on a jointer' ....?
A hall table made this way is also shown late in the thread 'chair design 101'
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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9th November 2014, 09:50 PM #6
Ah, now this is a wickedly good idea fletty, and I think (without looking at your thread yet) that I can see how it would work. Simply lift up the back end onto a block (maybe clamp it into a simple jig) and do ever increasingly longer passes until the surface can support itself - then finish the length?
Very keen on this idea because it is an unknown fact that I am the forum champion of tapered anything off the jointer - don't even need a jig.
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9th November 2014, 10:16 PM #7
Close, but especially with the segmented cutter, the entire taper is done in a single pass.
Basically, you drop the in feed table by (say) 10mm, fix a block on the infeed table for a start point that ensures the length of the untapered portion, fix a block on the out feed table as a stop point that ensures the length of the foot. It is very quick and, if done in 2 passes with the second pass being only a skim cut, the leg is virtually finished straight off the jointer.
After cutting the blanks, you can taper a leg in only a few minutes.
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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