I have a "Howto" question about cutting a taper on a tablesaw, & I need to accurately reproduce this part.
The challenge is cutting the identical taper on both sides of a board. For example, take a square board and label Right side West, Left side East, top side North, Bottom side South. Keeping the south side down, I need to cut the identical taper on the West and East sides of the board.
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The tough part is that if you use a traditional taper jig sled, this is not really possible. Even reinserting the the scrap piece on one side, flipping and recutting won't work because of the saw kerf - you'll just cut a trapezoidal shape.
For a real world example, the final shape will be roughly 1.5" on the leading edge, 3" on the trailing edge and the board will be 2" thick and 28" long.
The best work around I've come up with is to cut 2 boards with the same taper using a sled type taper jig and glue them down the center.
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