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Transformations: Legs

I had meant to mention the way I dealt with the dowels, which were the original joinery for the legs, but there was not the opportunity.

Here are the legs, and you can see the ugly dowels. What I did was to turn them upside down, and remove the dowelled section in the taper cut ...

First, the legs were morticed ..

I built a simple fixture for my sliding table saw ...

The nail holes were filled with coloured epoxy, which disappeared after the finish was applied ...

And then smoothed ...

I was asked (when I posted this photo elsewhere) why I planed into the grain. The answer is ‘because I can with a closed chipbreaker’  No, the real answer is because it was easier to keep track of the mark demarcating the flat section.

Regards from Perth

Derek

July 2020