I’ve got three of the four legs for this project already done and going back to the prototype and that I had two legs in the back they were tapered only on two faces, two on the front tapered on four faces. And it was obvious right from the get go that the four taper, tapering every side looked way better, are much more delicate leg, much more gentle look to this whole thing so that’s what I wanted to go with. Now, if you’ve done double tapers on legs already, this is going to be pretty familiar to you, just one small change we have to make. I’ve got my taper jig setup here so that I can lock my material in, cut the taper that I want on these legs. I'm going to go ahead and cut three sides. When we do side number four, that’s where things change a little bit.

Now, a couple of things here. First, notice that when I did cut number three, this side had already been cut. So, what I did there was I pushed the bottom of the leg against the step down on this end. I held the top part of the leg where it’s still flat to receive the rail later against the stop on my taper jig so you wanted to make sure that when you this cut you're not pushed in like that, you're registering off the flat up here where the tiger clamp is.

Now, the problem we run into at side number four is that when I rotate this into the correct position to cut that side. Lock it in place right up here. You can see that there’s nobody home underneath there. Now imagine, my big aggressive tooth rip blade is going to come by. It’s going to make this wood bounce like a diving board and if that starts to happen, it’s going to chatter like crazy. It’s not a good cut at all. So, the solution is if only we had something that was at exactly the same taper that we could put in here to support this while we do. It’s the off cut since you’ve already taken off your piece from your previous cuts. So, we want to part in here like this. We’re going to slide that up hill until it’s where it needs to be to support the leg then I’m going to mark that position because now what I want to do is take the leg out. I'm going to use some double-faced tape and that’s going to hold that wedge in position for me so that I don’t have to worry about accidentally bouncing out while I'm making the cut. Now, that automatically gives us the perfect angle. We’re good to go on side number four so I come down here, I hit my stop, hold the flat against my stop up here, ready to make a cut.

So, in that wedge down in here is a very simple solution to take the chatter out of this thing so it’s a good cut. It’s a safe cut. Next step on these legs just like always, we got to clean those up. You can do that with just a little bit of sanding. Once that’s cleaned up, you’re ready for joinery. This is a great way to make, four-sided tapered legs using the table saw.