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02-16-2019, 6:51 PM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Trifid feet in Woodcarvers Forum

Here’s a dry assembly showing the foot carving in context. I see one or two spots on the feet that I want to address, and I’ll next carve shells on...

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02-16-2019, 3:58 PM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Just curious - who considers this woodworking? in General Woodworking and Power Tools

I call it a poorly designed leg. Notice how the curve flattens into a straight section at the top of the leg...why would they leave it like that? Or...

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02-16-2019, 3:36 PM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Trifid feet in Woodcarvers Forum

These are the templates I used for these feet. I copied them from the plans, pasted to 1/4” ply, and then filed to shape. Took about 10 minutes,...

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02-16-2019, 1:25 PM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Trifid feet in Woodcarvers Forum

Thanks Tony. I’ve carved other types of feet so it’s a quick learning curve. Turns out that the tricky part of the triffid is getting those lines as...

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02-16-2019, 7:42 AM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Tool Holder for the Shop Moravian Bench in Neanderthal Haven

I have a Moravian with a split slab..will post pictures whenever I get the thing cleared off (has parts of a build spread across it now).

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02-14-2019, 8:50 PM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Trifid feet in Woodcarvers Forum

BTW, just because these feet were a Philadelphia hallmark doesn’t mean the were exclusively used there. They originated in Britain (some say...

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02-14-2019, 8:23 PM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Trifid feet in Woodcarvers Forum

After a couple more practice pieces, am moving on now to the real deal (Honduran mahogany). I’m pleased with these results. (No idea why some...

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02-14-2019, 8:12 PM

Mark Maleski started a thread Trifid feet in Woodcarvers Forum

Trifid feet, from the Latin trifidus for “three parts” are a hallmark of Philadelphia furniture of the Queen Anne Period (1750 or so). I’m building...

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02-05-2019, 11:40 AM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Needing a small curved adze for bowl carving. in Woodcarvers Forum

There's no better bowl carver out there today than Dave Fisher, and he has a video on YouTube called "Axes and Adzes for the bowl carver." In it, he...

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01-22-2019, 12:05 PM

Mark Maleski replied to a thread Colonial Williamsburg in Neanderthal Haven

So, funny thing...I spent the first couple of days of the conference sitting next to this nice guy, with lots of interesting observations, named...

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