It’s been months since working on this. Covid held me up in sourcing wood for the legs. I could have mail ordered, but I really wanted to see it live before committing. I was walking through the local Woodcraft and saw a nice 12/4 piece of Brazilian Cherry that had some nice rift sawn edges. I thought it would match well with the Brazilian Rosewood top and aprons.
Anyway, I’ve posted before on the top, steam bending, and making the sand shaded ovals and fan.
After plenty of procrastination, I decided to tackle the bridle joints for the leg/apron.
The apron was marked out, taped and the usual saw kerfs, chisel chopping to get to rough size.
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I then made a cardboard template to help mark the lines for cutting the legs, that would give me the outside reveal I wanted (showing it after the fact, didn’t get a before pic)
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I thought about a Japanese saw, but ended up finding a western rip saw worked best.
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Then a quick cut with a fret saw and clean up the base with a few chisels
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I found a good use for my plane float...did a great job fine tuning the “tenon”
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Not perfect, but not bad results.
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Lots of work left to do. Back legs next, then tapers, then inlays, then....