Simplest planer leg tapering jig?

How about a long piece of MDF, some spacer blocks under the end to be planed down, and hot glue?

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It doesn’t need some sort of guide board on edge to
engage the rollers to feed through?

Depending on how wide the leg is, you could just use a tapering jig on the table saw and turn only a kerf into dust verses the entire area to be removed.

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Lookity, maybe this would work for you:

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/88997

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If it is just one edge to be tapered, the table saw with a taper jig as a good bet. You can also use the jointer and creep up on the taper. That is my preferred way of doing this.

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The simplest taper jig for the planer is a single board with a cutout in which the blank can be dropped.

Another method is to use a couple parallel rails with a flat board glued between them at the angle needed. Then a couple stop blocks get glued on either end. The blank is loaded into the top and the whole thing is sent through the planer.

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I tried it with a support block screwed to one end of a carrier board. The
cut came out with a belly, not an even taper. In this case
I can work with the belly.

There is an excellent YouTube video available showing how to taper stock using a jointer. Pretty easy…if you have a jointer of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTXvsrzbSQ

I was about to make the same suggestion as scrub. I go the jointer for all my tapering.

I would use a sled type tapering jig that rides in two miter slots on the table saw.

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The table saw comments are Ok but what about when you need to taper all 4 sides of a leg? you will need to do some rather creative adjusting to get that jig to work right on the opposite side of the first cuts. Save some headache and use the jointer.

-- Minnesota Woodworkers Guild, Past President, Lifetime member.

Jointer!

Remmert provided the most appropriate answer to my
particular need in this case, which is tapering 43”
long leg blanks for steam bending dining chair legs
in multiples.

Thanks for all your replies.

Wow, thanks ScrubPlane. You just taught an old dog a new trick.