TOP TIP
Thickness tapering
or a recent project, I needed 2×6s tapered in thickness. My first thought was to tilt the blade on my table saw, but a fully-raised blade isn’t high enough for the job. So I turned to my thickness planer. I cut a scrap of plywood to serve as an auxiliary table and screwed a cleat to its underside that would hook on the planer’s infeed table and hold the