I used the Woodchuck for years, but also got more crooked tapers from it than I could explain. Someone suggested that perhaps the shafts where I was getting crooked tapers were out of round to start with. That's a novel idea.
Finally, I went the opposite direction that you want to go and bought a Tim's taper tool combined with a Ryobi combination disk and belt sander. It will probably sit for long periods of time in between uses too, but what the heck, I've got a big garage and it is fun to do my own shaft tapers as well as nock and point tapers. Once I figured out the settings, all the tapers I've done on it seem to be true. The only problem with it is that I went through a lot of wood and time getting it set up to do 11/32" shafts, so my inclination is to leave it on that setting rather than fool around changing it to work on 5/16" and 23/64" shafts too.
Unless you particularly enjoy experimenting around with such things, Tim's tool might be a better answer than trying to invent your own, since you might end up with higher cost, and certainly a lot more time invested in the project, than you would if you just bought his. It is fairly easy to take Tim's tool off the sander if you want to use it for other purposes.
Topic: Taper Cutters (Read 597 times)
