Tapering Legs by Hand | Shaker Table Project #6

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[@vosifle]

Thank you for all these fantastic tutorials!

[@kevins031151]

Love your work mate. I've learned heaps from your videos. Best wished from down under.

[@chrisjaustin88]

Love that you're back to this content! Thank you!

[@timokuhmonen5215]

thanks for tutorial. Well spent minutes 🙂

[@АнНа-у2ш8р]

Thanks for the videos! It is difficult for beginners to decide what thickness is suitable for the leg, drawer and other parts. If possible, talk through the dimensions more often. Maybe make a speech on this topic.

[@iamwhoiam4410]

Good tutorial and thanks for sharing. I just tapered 16 of those legs out of red oak. I basically do like you do but I used a LN 5 1/5 jack and finished them with a LN 4 1/2 smoother. I'm having a detached retina repair in one of my eyes so I used the Veritas plane fence on both planes. Not getting a taper correct can and will mess up how a table looks in the final build. Anyone watching this video needs to pay attention to what Matts telling you and do as he says. You won't be disappointed in the end results.

[@arnofrom9350]

Thanks for sharing! Great explanation, as always!

[@dpmeyer4867]

thanks

[@brucen4719]

This is incredible instruction! I feel like I am back in school.

[@rossgraham8776]

Very timely for me - will be doing this next week and this will be really really helpful

[@adrianconduit9248]

This is such in depth instruction and advice (Matt seems so serious until you watch the world record Malteser rolling trick). I am just waiting for the arrival of my project material so I can see how close I can get to the example Matt has shown us.

[@Erik_The_Viking]

Great tips for planing legs. I made a couple of similar tables with tapers and yeah the grain direction required me to go up the leg, which wasn't too much of a problem. I used a table saw for the initial cutting but used a plane to smooth everything. Came out great!

[@joshualandry3160]

Hi Matt! This might be a random question, but in regards to Bertha how often do you use your sliding deadman? Mr. Schwarz is pretty against them and I'm curious what your experience is.

[@FreeOnlineWoodworkingSchool]

Good question! I don't use it often, but it's incredibly useful when I do need it. It's such a simple installation and so unobtrusive that I personally don't see any downsides.

[@andyrahn275]

Could you use a scrub plane to remove a bulk of the taper waste? Or is that too aggressive?

[@DerekSmith-l8i]

Matt! What is the bench plane you are using here,a 5 1/2 by chance? Just curious, looks to short to be a 7.

[@AdamAugustPhoto]

So when is Rob doing the student series? 😂