Thread: apologies in advance... WIP

Originally Posted by fletty

.... but the owner is very pretty!

No apology necessary Fletty. We understand

Nice legs, shame about the paint.

The things we do for lust!!

Another interesting one to follow.

So, Nice legs and the face is nice as well.

You go shed time Bet those legs are better looking than yours after the weekend

How'd you turn the ends Fletty

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Bet those legs are better looking than yours after the weekend

How'd you turn the ends Fletty

Actually the knee pulled up pretty well after City2Surf number 25. I'll have to get back into training if I'm going to do the half marathon in September though!

The turned ends are an old trick. I bandsawed the legs out of a 90 x 90 blank BUT before doing all of the cutting and shaping, I drill into the end with a hole cutter and then blend the sawn faces into the outer diameter.

fletty

Well, I've always been a sucker for a well turned leg.

So I'd best watch this one closely.

Looking good so far.

I'm a bit of a leg man.....but Fletty, a gentleman like you should not have to apologise.

Originally Posted by fletty

Actually the knee pulled up pretty well after City2Surf number 25. I'll have to get back into training if I'm going to do the half marathon in September though!

The turned ends are an old trick. I bandsawed the legs out of a 90 x 90 blank BUT before doing all of the cutting and shaping, I drill into the end with a hole cutter and then blend the sawn faces into the outer diameter.

fletty

Thanks Fletty a neat simple way of doing that.

Good luck with 1/2 marathon

I’ve had couple of requests about how I made the cabriole legs. I didn’t take pictures for the front legs so this mini WIP is for the rear legs which are different in that they only splay sideways wheras the front legs splay both out and forward.

The design required cabriole legs where the cross section is always rectangular rather than the very sculptural curvy ones … thank heavens!

I cut a blank which is the final length and the width obviously is the maximum dimension of the splay. The front legs were cut from a 90 x 90 blank wheras the back legs come from 90 x 45

I’ve used a hole cutter to cut the outer diameter of the foot and the (splay) template is laid on it and the shape marked on opposite sides making sure that it aligns with the pre-cut hole

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the (no splay) template is then used to mark the other 2 faces

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after cutting out one of the dimensions, the pieces are aligned

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and taped together

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before the second dimension is cut on the bandsaw

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when the bundle is next separated the roughly shaped leg appears like magic

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I then remove the excess around the circular foot with a saw before rounding and tapering the foot on a belt sander

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The shape is then refined and smoothed by a curved sole spokeshave for concave faces

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And a block plane for convex faces

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fletty

Thank you for the post always good to see things from similar and different perspectives.

I got a bit more time in the shed today and finished shaping the legs although they haven't had a final sanding yet. I machined mortices in the legs via a simple dado but, with everything now being 'handed' I inevitably cut one leg EXACTLY the wrong way. Repair was a matter of inserting squared pine into the unwanted slots and machining new ones. I've cut the end aprons, fitted them and I've decided to glue it together and make the ends into subassemblies so that sanding might make it a bit more 'organic".
There is still no design so I will wait for the front to come to me in a red-induced trance........


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fletty

Originally Posted by fletty

...... I will wait for the front to come to me in a red-induced trance........
fletty

I had an early mark today (courtesy of a typical Australian childhood of being sent outside semi naked from dawn to dusk) and spent a few unplanned hours in the shed.

Luckily the design came to me last night but, as you can see from the graceful curves below, the design came to me after Brown Bros liqueur muscat NOT red wine...

I cut and fitted the front and rear aprons,

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and then sliced and diced one of them to allow for drawers

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I then reassembled and started sanding and puttying

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one of the secrets previously only known by furniture PAINTERS is that you can use spakfilla as a putty

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and now I can start researching 'crackle painting!

fletty

Pine never looked so classy!