Making the Legs

Above left: One of the wider pieces of stock marked up for two of the three required leg blanks. Experience told me to make some spares in case of accidents. As it turned out, this was just as well...

Above right: The two blanks cut out on the bandsaw.

Right: The bandsawn leg blanks ready for final shaping. I made a template out of 6mm MDF to mark out the leg shapes initially. Then I had a "brain wave". The saga of what happened next was related to the UK Woodworking group...

Well, this is slightly later in the process, but as it is all part of making the legs... Above left: One of the legs held in the cam clamp on the Woodrat while I cut the male part of the sliding dovetail. First one half of the tenon was cut, then the leg flipped round, and without moving the clamping point, the other side cut. Above right: Just an excuse to show off one half of my pair of Lie Nielsen side rebate planes, really. Of course the fit of the dovetail didn’t really need adjusting...

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