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A year or two ago now, I bought a load of tools from a retired patternmaker, and he tossed in this generic taper jig for nothing (amongst other things. It's a good story). Anyway, this was the first time I ever tried to use it, and now I see why he was keen to see it go... How on earth people can manage to use them on a table saw, I don't know; I was having kittens with it on the Neanderbuddy.
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Anyway, I got through, and close to the line. More or less... A little work with a plane needed there. Oh dear, that is a shame... |
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I don't have a vice capable of having its jaw skewed to take a tapered leg, and I confess I hadn't thought this far ahead and seen it as a potential problem. Lots of folks have come up with ingenious solutions to their lackage in this respect, but I went with the quickest and cheapest. I stuck one of the off-cuts from the bandsawing onto the jaw with double-sided tape. Worked like a charm. |
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After some pleasant work with jack and smoother removing the saw marks, the finished legs. That is to say they're finished apart from the finishing... |
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The next step was to cut the slots in the stretchers to take the bottons to hold the top on. I decided to just mark stop and start lines, and use a router and fence; but by the time I'd done all 16 I wished I'd made a jig. That's "batch production" inexperience showing through. |
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A bit of work with the 'Rat and I had a basket of buttons needing a hole bored through them. Hopefully I've learnt something, so I made a simple jig for the drill press to hold them. Look, no hands. The push stick holds the button in the "notch" in the jig, bore the holes, replace the bit with a countersink and repeat to countersink all the holes. Simple, but oh so, er, boring... |
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Now I've got a way to hold them on, time to cut and plane the table tops to size. Well okay, so this is just the planing. Be honest now; you've seen one thing cut on a bandsaw, you've seen them all. Thought I blow the dust off the L-N #164 for this, and it did the job admirably. |
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Once I'd squared up one edge I decided the clamp them togther to plane up the opposite side to make life easier. As indeed it was. |
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The right size, but the undersides as yet unchamfered. I decided to wait until I had the legs and stretchers glued up and could see exactly how wide they needed to be. In the meantime, a coat of shellac to protect them... |
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...and about six million coats on the stretchers and legs. Good grief, but it's a tedious job, and still not finished at this point. |
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