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Anyone using the Bellinger roughing and tapering beveler sold by Golden Witch (not the Dickerson style beveler)? I'm looking for opinions on how well it works, especially how well it does at tapering, its ease of use (setting up, feeding ease or difficulty, accuracy), etc. really any comments, positive or negative. I saw first hand one of older Bellinger roughing bevelers (not a tapering beveler) and it was extremely difficult to push a strip through, you really needed to have two people to get the strip through. I've heard that improvements have been subsequently made to make pushing strips through much easier. (Bob Williams) I use the old style Bellinger Roughing beveller and have been very happy with it. You must however work with strips no larger than 5/16" thick, preferably 1/4" otherwise the strip does not push through. I have always ran the beveller solo and have never had a problem. (Marty DeSapio) Of course I use one. I don't use the tapering attachment much, but next time your up in Boiling Springs you can stop by if you want and try it for yourself. In response to your complaint about difficulty pushing strips through that the cutters were probably getting dull and that's why it was difficult. The Bellinger machine is awesome. (Bill Taylor)
What material is the tapering templates made of utilized for the Hand Planer's Friend? I would like to make additional templates out of something other than wood. (Ron Delesky) I have one of Bellinger’s older roughing and tapering bevelers from about 15 years ago. They don’t make this machine anymore, at least it’s not for sale on their website. I love this machine; after all these years I have it tweaked to where I can taper strips to a point where I final plane with only 10 or so passes. Originally it came with a set of wood pattern boards and directions on making additional templates. I kept this set intact, and only use them as templates to make more pattern boards out of phenolic resin, basically a product I buy from a local place called SSD Plastics. There are several different types. The stuff I buy comes in 4’ x 8’ sheets like ½” plywood but is really a compressed fiber with a skin of phenolic resin. They don’t warp and they slide through the rails easily. Since I make a set specific for a particular rod, I have sets for different taper rods that I make most often, although one set of boards will do several different tapers of the same line weight. I have probably the equivalent of (2) sheets cut up into 2.5” widths. From there they get fine tuned into a taper “pattern.” This stuff is not cheap. I think it runs a few hundred bucks a sheet now, although I haven’t had to buy any in quite a few years since I have all the pattern boards I want. Being drier than toast here in western Colorado, wood just warps in no time. This was the best solution for me. (Tom Vagell)
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