Taper Gauge

This is exactly what I use, except I didn’t call Mike Dunbar, haha.

-- Every cloud has a silver lining

Hey Ken,

Are you sure you’re stupid enough to be a chairmaker? ;-)

-- Chuck, Pullman, WA

if I don’t understand how that works, does that make me dumber than a chair maker?

-- The CNC machine can either produce the work of art you imagined, or very decorative firewood.

Naw, it makes you a suitable candidate!

Basically, you turn your first attempt at the taper, and then stop the lathe. You try to press that on there. Because it’s tapered, you can slide it back and forth on the taper you’re trying to turn. Look for gaps in the rear, and then on the top and bottom.

Go back to taking off material until you can press-fit on the taper, with no gaps behind, above or below.

-- Chuck, Pullman, WA

that is brilliant… and i clearly am not. that makes so much sense. thanks for the tip

-- The CNC machine can either produce the work of art you imagined, or very decorative firewood.

Chuck,

Now you know that one of our great lessons was chairmakers can’t do math! Green means stop red means go; or is it the other way around. How many eighths was that? You were supposed to add the tenon length I knew I forgot something.

-- Fred.... Poconos, PA ---- Chairwright in the making ----

Boy, that Mike is something else. And it really makes so much sense. Well, to a chairmaker!

-- Chuck, Pullman, WA