View Full Version : Build vs Buy: Taper Jig. Dubby On Sale Too.
Patrick Irish
06-15-2018, 11:48 PM
I'm envisioning the legs of a console table I want to make to be tapered. I was thinking about making a taper jig in addition to crosscut sled this weekend BUT Peachtree has the Dubby Taper Jig on sale of $72 shipped, regular $120.
Any thoughts on building vs buying?
A sheet of 3/4" ply cabinet grade is $45-$50 at my home depot. Then gotta cut etc. I have the clamps already.
Debating if it's worth my time to build or buy it.
https://www.ptreeusa.com/images/3170_dubby_taper_jig_1_300.jpg
Keith Westfall
06-16-2018, 12:54 AM
If you can afford it, buy it. Unless you just like to spend time making jigs.
Cary Falk
06-16-2018, 12:57 AM
If you can afford it, buy it. Unless you just like to spend time making jigs.
Kind of my thought as well.
Mike Cutler
06-16-2018, 6:19 PM
Patrick
I'm in the build it when you need it camp.
I've built more than a few through the years, and all of them were purpose specific. I would not want to be constrained by the dimensions of a prebuilt sled.
Frederick Skelly
06-16-2018, 6:24 PM
I built one VERY simply and inexpensively a few years ago (for under $10, since I had the hardware).
I haven't used it again. For me, it wouldn't have been worth the $70. YMMV.
Fred
johnny means
06-16-2018, 9:57 PM
I can build a taper jig as quickly as it takes to set up the Dubby. Seems like a waste to me. Of course, I'm assuming we all have plenty of scrap wood lying around.
glenn bradley
06-16-2018, 10:31 PM
This sounds like a case of whether you have the stock on hand or not. It is a weekend project to make a fairly nice one if you have the stuff on hand. Much less time for a one-off, single use setup. If you have to buy everything, the commercial route may be better for you.
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Warren Lake
06-16-2018, 10:46 PM
you want to make some table legs its some scrap plywood and an air nailer and likely five minutes to make it.
Ed Aumiller
06-16-2018, 10:52 PM
Bought a commercial one, used it one time..
Made my own, used it many times..
for a one time project, as Warren said...five minutes
Thomas Canfield
06-17-2018, 10:48 PM
Where is Norm and his Yankee Workshop? I made a taper jig after seeing his simple one about 15 years back using a door hinge and plain lumber. Works when I need it and cost less than $1 using scrap lumber and hinge. Does not have the clamping on some of the purchased units, but has worked for the simple needs I have.
johnny means
06-25-2018, 9:58 PM
Had to make four tapered legs today. Doubt it took me two minutes to whip this up.
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