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tiredofspam nospam.nospam.com wrote:

Whenever I tape legs I always have to cleanup one side to get the
beginning of the taper perpendicular to the leg.

I am curious why? This leg that was squared in the planer has pencil
marks for clarity.

One side is perpendicular,
The other side is not. The blade comes up all the way thru and then
some, I use a high blade not just thru.

The way I rotate offers support on the backside.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I am getting tired of fixing
these after the fact.


Note that the lower picture as resized (or the upper one big) has the
taper perpendicular to the flat side of the leg. The upper one (lower in
big) has it perpendicular to the cut side of the leg, which makes me
think than that cut side of the leg is being used as a reference for
that cut. Either order the cuts so that does not happen, or make like a
cabriole leg and tape on the waste to shim the stock back to roughly
square before further cuts.

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