I need wood tapered pins. Turning small tapers on the lathe accurately is slow and tedious, and grinding round dowels to shape is unreliable. With this jig, I can make tapered pins of any wood in ...

Twist drills do not make accurately sized or good finish holes; a reamer of some type is often used to cut the final size and finish. A reamer will not make the original hole; it will only enlarge a ...

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