Tapered Mortise Reamer

While they were useable and they did get used a few times there were things that needed improving. Previously i linked to an article by jennie alexander about making a tapered reamer using just a piece of dry hardwood and a compass saw blade. I had borrowed a reamer made by fred emhoff and it worked well but was no fun to sharpen.
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Tapered reamers for chairmaking 140 this is a large scale six degree reamer intended for creating the tapered mortises that are one of the foundations of windsor chair joinery.

Tapered mortise reamer. The reamer is used to transform a cylindrical hole into a tapered mortise. A few years ago i made a reamer and tenon cutter to make tapered mortise and tenons. The tools described in that article are a bit rough but apparently work just fine. With a reamer and a matching tenon cutter making perfect fitting tapered mortise and tenons is a breeze.

Ive also used wooden reamers with a bit of steel embedded in it which scrapes the sides of the mortise. Tapered reamer tapered tenon cutter mortise reamer wood reamer tapered joints recent entries workmate upgrades and restore 4. Recently ive been trying to come up with a simple process to make a first rate tenon cutter to match the reamers that i sell. For years i used a tapered reamer from england that never worked well.

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