Nice legs.....

[Shamrock]

Radio on : "she's got legs, and she knows how to use them" gotta love the great bearded ones.

We'll it's been awhile for posting,but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. I decided I'd do a personal study in leg design to get a better feel for leg shaping and proportions. So I cut out some square stock in various dimensions and chopped some mortises on the Powermatic.

Then I laid out the designs I wanted to try and rough cut them on the bandsaw and then refined the shape and cleaned them up with my spokeshaves rasps and some sandpaper:

As you can see I did 4 sided tapered foot, then a federal style leg, then another smaller 4 sided tapered foot, then a 4 sided straight taper and then a 2 sided taper.
I'm really excited about the federal leg as this is my 1st time using inlay:


I also started preparing the lumber for my next bench using the Beech I've had lying around for waaayy to long:


Also been busy starting to build the templates for the next rocker:

One interesting note here- the Taylor Rocker profile is different in curvature and length from the Maloof style that we built in Woodguy1975's class:


so I've modified the Taylor template to give me a little extra "kick" at the back.

One last note- Our fellow enabler Woodwrangler has been tempting me with all theses lathes recently and I've made a lowball offer on every one so far to now avail. So maybe someday one of these folks with the "mustard monster" will hook me up for a sweet deal. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

That's all for now-see y'all at the picnic (I've got so show up to pick up the Kapex I'm going to win:wink_smil in the raffle)

 

[Trent Mason]

Nice legs Mike! :no: :slap: :rotflm: Nice job on the beginning of the next rocker. Can't WAIT to see how that thing turns out. :icon_thum


Cheers mate, ccasion1

 

[PeteM]

Yup - Nice Legs :icon_thum

Next Bench!!! You didn't even get the first one dirty yet!!! :wsmile:

I'm confused about the rocker template pictures.
It looks like laminated sapele - but it can't be . . . :no:
So what's up with it? :icon_scra

pete

Radio on : "she's got legs, and she knows how to use them" gotta love the great bearded ones.

We'll it's been awhile for posting,but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. I decided I'd do a personal study in leg design to get a better feel for leg shaping and proportions. So I cut out some square stock in various dimensions and chopped some mortises on the Powermatic.

Then I laid out the designs I wanted to try and rough cut them on the bandsaw and then refined the shape and cleaned them up with my spokeshaves rasps and some sandpaper:

As you can see I did 4 sided tapered foot, then a federal style leg, then another smaller 4 sided tapered foot, then a 4 sided straight taper and then a 2 sided taper.
I'm really excited about the federal leg as this is my 1st time using inlay:


I also started preparing the lumber for my next bench using the Beech I've had lying around for waaayy to long:


Also been busy starting to build the templates for the next rocker:

One interesting note here- the Taylor Rocker profile is different in curvature and length from the Maloof style that we built in Woodguy1975's class:


so I've modified the Taylor template to give me a little extra "kick" at the back.

One last note- Our fellow enabler Woodwrangler has been tempting me with all theses lathes recently and I've made a lowball offer on every one so far to now avail. So maybe someday one of these folks with the "mustard monster" will hook me up for a sweet deal. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

That's all for now-see y'all at the picnic (I've got so show up to pick up the Kapex I'm going to win:wink_smil in the raffle)

 

[Travis Porter]

That is a lot of legs. You have anything planned for them?

 

[TracyP]

Nice Legs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Shamrock]

The legs are for something, actually a lot of somethings...but that's a secret, I'll divulge more info in a future post.

Pete, your right, the laminated sections you see are from the 1st rocker. The new template is on the sheet of baltic birch (which I have yet to cut out) I was just using the old template to compare the 2 and make a sorta combo of the 2. I actually like the idea of shorter rockers as that means the chair will fit better in corners.