How Do I Cut A Tapered Octagon?

[Jonathan Spool]

Hi,
It's been a while since I've posted here.
i recently made this Santoku blade with an octagonal wa handle. The bolster and butt are tenoned into the mid section of the handle.
I belt sanded the octagon shape to the handle.
i would like to start tapering my octagon handles and am trying to figure out how to set up on my table saw to do this in a controlled and repeatable fashion.
Any ideas?

[Andrew Hughes]

Cool looking knife I could have used one today.Made a bunch of salsa from the last of the tomatoes.Sorry can't help with the handle.I can barly figure out my own stuff.

[Valk Wilkinson]

I would think this setup would work just you would remove the wood with a saw instead of a hand plane:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgJoj7zvlyc

Theres also the article here with some comments at the bottom: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/octagons-made-easy

[Jonathan Spool]

The layout demonstration is excellent. Any suggestions how to cut the facets on a tablesaw?

[Bradley Gray]

Here's one for the band saw. Probably need to lower the centers to use a table saw.

321027

[Jonathan Spool]

That's excellent. Thanks