Tapered Ball End Mill as Profile Cutter?

I would just watch the engagement of that tapered endmill if you do a full-depth contouring op. Depending on the angle of the taper, the tool engagement at the top of the stock might be a little bit too much to chew. If you don’t want to take any chances, maybe set depth per pass to half the stock thickness so that it goes at it in two passes. Ideally, do a test cut for that scenario on some scrap of that wood, you don’t want to mess up a 10+ hours job during that final clean-up.

And then again as @RichCournoyer said, those tapered endmills are strong.

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