Cutting wedges.

[admin]

I'm needing to cut a few wedges on the table saw. The largest will be around 7 inches long, 2 inches wide at the wide end. I'll also be wanting to cut a few smaller ones with a 1:6 ratio as well as a 1:8 ratio.

Any ideas that don't involve reinventing the wheel? I could make a taper jig, but there must be a simpler way.

TJ.

[art3427]

do it on a bandsaw.

art

[sawduster]

I've got a "table" that slide along the rip fence for my TS. It's maybe 3 feet long by a foot wide and has a pair of t-tracks going across the narrower width. The T-tracks each have a hold down that is used to either hold the work itself, or a battan against which the work can be held. Easiest for me is to draw the taper onto the work, line it up with the edge of the table and clamp it down. Set the other side of the table against the fence, slide it over so that the blade is about a piece of paper's width from the edge of table, and lock the fence.

[Ruffnek]

I'm with Art on this one. The bandsaw is the easiest and safest way if you have one.

If you have to do it on the TS, I believe you need to make a tapering jig. For one-off stuff, I generally just use a piece of scrap plywood with a stop at the front end and another piece of scrap screwed to it for a fence.

For small pieces like that, you will probably need to use something to secure the piece to the jig while making the cut...that can also be shop made.

[Safetyboy]

There's a video post showing how to do it with either the bandsaw, or using a regular handsaw, here.

[Beamer]

Yeah - taper jig is my bet, too ... if'n ya gotta do it on the TS.

How many total? In the absence of a bandsaw, I'd be inclined to cut up to 10 by hand, personally. Even if i only had a crosscut saw

[TDHofstetter]

If there's very MANY... make ONE, CAREFULLY... and use it to build a jig to hammer the rest out.