I'm trying to change up the tapered legs on my Tiny Tables a bit by creating a turned tapered leg. I've made a few tiny tables using turned legs of various lengths and really don't like turning a 30" long 1 1/4" square piece of stock tapered down to between 3/4" and 1/2" on the small end. It's extremely hard to get 4 legs reasonably close, and when the wood piece breaks it scares the mud out our you.
Ive been toying with the idea of using a jig on the lathe similar to the jig others use to mount a router above the lathe to cut slots in pieces with, but instead of a router use a belt sander mounted on a plate that slides up and down the piece. I've seen somewhere a belt attachment on a lathe I think was building baseball bats but I can't find it online.
Thoughts?
capncarl
Ive been toying with the idea of using a jig on the lathe similar to the jig others use to mount a router above the lathe to cut slots in pieces with, but instead of a router use a belt sander mounted on a plate that slides up and down the piece. I've seen somewhere a belt attachment on a lathe I think was building baseball bats but I can't find it online.
Thoughts?
capncarl
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