First Project - All Hand Tool

[gary Zimmel]

Great job Jeff!

Can't beat the feeling of doing things with hand tools.

[David Keller NC]

"I am curious about the quote below, how would you do the joinery if you faced the tapers inside on the legs ??"

Carlos - What one typically does is to taper the legs from the bottom of the apron down. There are a lot of techniques for starting a taper 6 or 7 inches down the leg and continuing to the end: "Interrupted" cut on a powered jointer, a table-saw jig, a bandsaw, or in the case of handtools, a rip saw and a plane.

From the hand-tool perspective, one of the better ways to do this is to select a rift-sawn leg stock board that's a bit over twice the width you need for a leg, then rip the board at an angle so that you get two legs with the appropriate taper, then you simply clean up the saw marks with a hand plane, a spokeshave, or a scraper.

[Carlos Cabrera]

David, I really dont know what i was thinking when i asked that question

Thanks for the explanation anyway !!

Carlos