A few weeks ago, I went to Irion Lumber to purchase some mahogany for the table. The leg stock was a piece of 12/4 10 inches wide by 8 foot long. This should be enough for 2 tables.
Right now I can get 3 legs from the width, so I cut 2 pieces of the length of the legs plus 2 inches so I would have a piece for the knee blocks. I ended up with 6 legs. I only need four right now. So I picked the best of the group. There are some worm holes in the stock but that only adds a little character.
With the bandsaw I cut the stock to 3 inches and then used the jointer and plainer to square up the legs.
Sorry, no hands tools at this point.
After the stock was squared, I made the template for the pad foot. I had the template for the ball and claw foot from the practice pieces. I traced the patterns on to the stock. I turned the 2 pad feet on the lathe.
Now I am ready to cut out the patterns on the bandsaw. I have a 1/4 inch blade in the saw and I cut them out as I did in the earlier videos on cabriolet legs.
It was very hot that day in the shop and that is the excuse I am going to use for not doing a really great job at following the lines on the legs. I have a lot of clean up do.
Since there is no carving on the rear legs, which are the pad feet I decide to work on those first and get them out of the way. This is where the hand tools come in, I use a spokeshave to smooth out the bumps and get nice clean curves. Then carving tools to finish the shape, rasp and files to complete the smoothing. Then using a card scraper of finish.
When I was working on the leg, I started to think about attaching it to the side and the prototype side that I had cut out. I realized that I had not done it correctly. I needed to leave it at 5 inches at the end and cut a curve leading to the edge for the knee block. So I made a new side for the prototype. You will see that in the video.
Here is today's video:
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