
Tips for Tapering Table Legs
George VondriskaDescription
I've got a table project I'm working on here, and these are the rails, these are the legs, and for this project the legs are tapered. And that's one of the things I wanna talk about here is making sure that when you taper legs you get the taper cut on the right side. It's always critical that the taper's on the inside of the leg. So what I wanna do is just kinda stand the parts up on the table here and show you what that's gonna look like. Except it's hard to get that leg to stand.
Could one of you guys lend me a hand for just a sec? There it is, very good. All right, now, thanks to that extra helping hand we can get that leg to stand up, and that leg to stand up and you can really see how when the taper's on the inside like these are positioned here, that makes for a very elegant-looking table, really lightens up the look so that it's a much nicer looking project when you're done.
You don't taper all four sides? I do, and actually never even thought about only tapering two.