need help with thickness sled to make tapered lams.

[wyatts daddy]

Hi everyone. I'm looking to make my own lams. Crooked stic told me to ask you guys for pictures and instructions on making a sled for a belt sander to make the taper in the lams. I'm looking for a .002 per ince taper. Thx
Bill

[wyatts daddy]

Anybody?

[ethan]

What kind of belt sander are you using?  A thickness sander, or horizontal sander?  The easiest way is probably to get a lam with the taper you want to use and us it as a template for your sled.

[ChuckC]

I just ended up purchasing some lams from Binghams.  .001, and .002.  so I made sleds that are .001, .002 and .003, plus parallel.  It was worth the cost of the purchase (not all that much).
Chuckc

[V-Archer]

Hi,

I use an oscillating spindle sander set-up (graphical picture #1) or my belt sander set-up (picture #2)
Easy to make with some scrap material.

 


This is my belt sander set-up, works great.

 

[wyatts daddy]

v-archer thx you sooooooooooo much. I like the drum sander version. I'm not sure of what you are using on the belt sander. Makes perfect since.
Bill