Chuck Ketcham
10-30-2009, 11:01 PM
All,
I've begun building a rocking horse for a Christmas present for my little girl. The plan shows that I need to taper along the edge of four 1-1/2" x 8" boards that make up the legs of the horse. This is necessary so that the legs will splay when mounted to the horse body. I do not need to taper across the face of the board. If I did, I would simply use a tapering jig and my tablesaw.
I can think of a couple of ways to do this.
1. Flip the wood on its edge and cut with a bandsaw. The problem is that the bandsaw I was considering buying for this project can only handle about 6" of resaw. So this option is out unless I buy a much bigger bandsaw.
2. Do the tapering by placing the face of the board on the jointer. But I only have a 6" jointer and the board is 8" wide.
Are there any other ways to do this? Will I have to plunk down loads of cash to buy a new tool?
Maybe that won't be so bad though!
Thanks.
Chuck
I've begun building a rocking horse for a Christmas present for my little girl. The plan shows that I need to taper along the edge of four 1-1/2" x 8" boards that make up the legs of the horse. This is necessary so that the legs will splay when mounted to the horse body. I do not need to taper across the face of the board. If I did, I would simply use a tapering jig and my tablesaw.
I can think of a couple of ways to do this.
1. Flip the wood on its edge and cut with a bandsaw. The problem is that the bandsaw I was considering buying for this project can only handle about 6" of resaw. So this option is out unless I buy a much bigger bandsaw.
2. Do the tapering by placing the face of the board on the jointer. But I only have a 6" jointer and the board is 8" wide.
Are there any other ways to do this? Will I have to plunk down loads of cash to buy a new tool?
Maybe that won't be so bad though!
Thanks.
Chuck