I’m looking to build tapered columns for an interior half wall and wanted the corners to be mitered.I would like to use my table saw but am unsure if a tapering jig is what I need or even how to use one properly.Help requested! thanks in advance. Nitronic1
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You can use a tapering jig on your tablesaw to taper the boards, and then miter the joints on the tablesaw, too. However, when you do the mitering you must do something a little odd. Say you're mitering the right edge of a board. If the board were not tapered you'd run the left edge of the board against the rip fence, so that the blade cutting on the right edge could protrude above and beyond the right edge. In your case this won't work because the board is tapered. Instead, clamp a sacrificial board to the rip fence, and expect the tip of the sawblade to stick into it. Run the miter with the edge being mitered being pressed against that sacrificial board.