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   Floss | Oct 11, 2005 03:37pm | #1

   You could try making a carriage out of plywood or MDF and cut the angle of taper on the side pieces and use your router to turn it round. Then make an indexing wheel attached to one end of the post which corresponds to the number of flutes desired.

   Are you trying to make this out of one piece?

   J.P.

   http://www.jpkfinefurniture.com
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   DonC | Oct 11, 2005 10:35pm | #2

   I made a shope made index head and jig to hold the router horizontal.

   Less time, you can get the back issue of Woodsmith that shows how to do it with equilateral triangles witht he tip cut off and do the job on a large router table. The table has to be twice as large as the workpiece being fluted. I can't remember the Issue of Woodsmith but do a search on how to create fluted corner colums for furniture.

   Also one Issue of Finewoodworking has a jig on the cover. The article is about making bed posts. This method requires alot of time to create jigs.

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   jackh | Oct 11, 2005 11:41pm | #3

   I guess I'm one of the many who have used the sloped router jig.  I did bedposts for a 4-poster and needed to put flutes into a 32" tapered piece of walnut.  I did use my lathe to taper the piece and my jig was built to fit around the lathe bed.  For each flute I could rotate the piece an exact number of degrees to keep them all evenly spaced.

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   SpecialK | Oct 12, 2005 11:28pm | #4

   I am making the post as 2 pieces (3 if you count the canopy).  The base piece is rectangular and the top piece is the rounded, tapered, fluted piece.  Fluting it using a jig makes sense.  I was hoping for some magic that non-lathe users could employ to get the round-taper part.

   Thanks for all of your responses.

   Drew

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   xxxxx | Oct 13, 2005 04:51am | #5

   If the tapered section is a straight taper,  a tablesaw tapering jig could be rigged with some kind of an indexing system to give you 8,12,16 or whatever number of facets you require.  The same jig could be run past a bit in a horizontally mounted router for the flutes.  An appropriate amount of sanding would finish it up quite well.

    

   xxxxx formerly known as P Reuter