"Puckdropper" puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote in message
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I've been thinking about building free standing stand for my bench
grinder.
One design I've been thinking about is a 4-sided tapered tower. It would
be about 10" on the bottom, and angle down to around 7" at the top.

If I wanted to work with mitered corners (no box joints this time, Lew),
would it simply be a matter of cutting them to complementary angles on the
saw when I make the tapered pieces?

Would there be enough support to prevent tipping? I plan on using pine so
I won't have the mass that the commercial versions have.

I used to make gym equipment. Everything I built could be attached to the
floor or a peice of plywood. Solved a lot of stability problems. Or you
could make a wooden base like lathes use and stuff it with sandbags.