Check out my Legs! (w/pics)

[tom]

[Kevin Singleton]

Very nice, and ingenious use of the tools you have available. Please post pics when you have a dry fit ready. I'm looking forward to seeing the assembly together.

[Leon]

Nice "red" foot on the end fo the tapered leg.

So uh the dust collector is still not working out for yuh? :~)

[David F. Eisan]

Hello everyone,

I have not had a chance to work on my kitchen table for a while, today I got back at it.

I wanted to taper the legs, but I wasn't sure how much to taper them. I laid out various tapers with painters tape and settled on one that I liked.

am not sure why, but I decided to mortise the legs for the skirt before I tapered the legs. I cannot believe how much I had to lean on the mortiser to cut a 1/2" mortise in ash.

the legs are 4" and my table saw only cuts 3" and a bit, I settled on a two step method for tapering the legs.

First I rough cut the taper on my bandsaw.

I made a jig to run the legs through my planer. I bashed the jig together from 1/2" melamine and narrow crown staples. The leg sits in a channel with a stop at one end and 1-1/2" foot at the other. The leg tapers

1-1/4" and the 1-1/2" foot was the exact height to get the taper I wanted.

can see the four legs done.

hope to mill up the stock for the apron and start on it next week.

Thanks for looking,

David.

[todd]

I've used a jointer to smooth out the taper on a table leg after rough cutting with the band saw.

todd

[charlie b]

snip

Makes the case for loose tenon M&T joinery. Plunge router, upcut spiral bit, and edge guide and some stops. Half inch or 3/4" baltic birch ply ripped to width, edges rounded over on a router table and just cut off what you need. No dado blade, no nibbling - SO much easier.

Question - how the hell do you plan to move this thing once it's all together?

(You really need to taper off the steroids)

charlie b

[Mike M]

But if you had a jig and used the planer it would give you a consistent dimension Mike M