I’ve been making progress over the week. It’s been very slow going. After roughing the dimensions of the legs, I wanted to get them more exactly square, plummed. This takes a long time.
After that, I wanted to get the tapers done. This took figuring out which legs will be the front and which part of each legs will be inside vs outside. Once that was done, I needed to determine the amount of the leg to leave at the foot. I determined a one inch square tapered from the outside (close to 2 inch square) over 12 inches. I then marked these out and sawed some of the waste away. After that, I used my hand planes use rough, medium, smooth plane setups to remove the rest of the material and get a near finish ready surface.
Here are shots of 2 of the legs. Since this picture which I took on Tuesday, I have finished all the legs. I want to do a bit of fine tuning then it’s off to cutting the top aprons and the bottom braces and getting them ready to do mortise and tenons in the appropriate places.
