hey thanks allen, the one nice thing about all of this for me anyway is that i know a guy that owns a cabinet shop with a $75,000 overhead sander so iam pretty sure that thing could get my tapers but he lives about 60 miles from our house so its not like i can just go over and sand a couple lams down. and i already have a hotbox built got it to stay at 145 to 155 degrees for quite while .then i have built a form, got some c clamps, and got the metal for the form "pressure plate so that the c clamp pressure is evenly distributed" and already messed around with some risers just out of pine 2x4's.