Taper Tool

[luvnlongbow]

Today I sat down and hand tapered a dozen shafts. After I was done my hands were a little achy (I have a touch of arthritis) so I said to heck with this and went to some supplier sites looking for the Woodchuck Power Taper tool. To my dismay not a single site had one for sale. My question is this, do they make them anymore?

[Orion]

Don't know if they're still made.  Can often find them used on the auction site.  If you have a table saw or disk sander, can make your own.  Quite easy to make a taper board. Some have even figured out a way to do it with hand held and bench belt sanders.  A quick look in the archives or U-Tube would likely turn up a bunch of how-tos.

[Pat B]

I use a table top belt/disc sander. The tapers are 11 degrees for the nock and 5 degrees for the point. I use a board with "V" grooves cut to those degrees for the shaft to rest in.

[alaninoz]

I'm with Pat B - disk sander and home-made jig. I tried several different taper tools that used a blade and none of them worked well enough for my liking. Minor point though - the nock taper is 11 and a half degrees.

[Roy from Pa]

I had a woodchuck taper tool and sold it.

It worked ok, but they are expensive.

Unless you plan on doing many many dozens of arrows, I would setup a jig like mentioned above.

A homemade jig will work just as well as the woodchuck tool.

[hitman]

Someone makes what is called the perfect taper tool. It works on a drill and does a great job.

[hitman]

Traditional Archery Products/Gary Renfro. Google it.

[luvnlongbow]

Thank you guys for the information.

[Possum Head]

I use a table top belt/disc sander. The tapers are 11 degrees for the nock and 5 degrees for the point. I use a board with "V" grooves cut to those degrees for the shaft to rest in.

Yep if I shot woods that’s the way I’d do it. For that matter that’s what I did but went to carbon

[Captain*Kirk]

Harbor Freight makes a cheap benchtop combo disc/belt sander that works pretty well for this. I use the disc sander portion.

[Tim Hoeck]

Can't beat the one Gary Renfro makes. WORKS GREAT

[hitman]

Yes the perfect taper tool comes with 3 tools for 5/16, 11/32 and 23/64.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Andy of Addictive Archery is making belt sander disk jig.https://www.addictivearchery.com/collections/arrow-building-supplies-and-tools/products/tims-taper-tool-for-barrel-tapers