How to cut tapered legs with a taper jig
Cut a taper along a table leg with a taper jig riding the rip fence.
Chapters
How to build one: Taper jig
A taper jig rides against the rip fence and holds the leg at an angle to the blade. The guide's angle and the fence's distance set where the taper starts and how much it removes.
Transcript
0:03 The taper jig rides the rip fence, the leg clamped to its guide, waste past the edge. Guide at one point three degrees, fence at eight and a half.
0:20 A steeper taper is just a new setting. The guide swings to one point eight degrees and the fence moves to eight and five sixteenths.