Learning how to make a ball and claw foot
Carving a ball and claw foot is something I’ve been planning to do for awhile now. Maybe some of you are in the same boat. Here is my progress to date. I’ve cut out a practice lowboy leg in basswood and I’m getting ready for a quiet moment to get out the carving tools. But already, I discovered that just cutting out the profile on the bandsaw was a bit trickier than I had expected. I found that it was easy to overcut even when I thought I had sufficiently stopped short. But overall, I’m pretty pumped by the instruction I’ve gotten from Mary May on a DVD and by what Chuck Bender, via Popular Woodworking, teaches on shaping the cabriole leg. I think it...
