Making some progress. The stringing has been completed, the ovals glued in, and the ebonized veneer has been glued in place.
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Next up was making the grooves for the cuff banding. I first referenced off the bottom of the leg with a marking gauge and made a tick mark at each corner.
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Keeping in mind that not all the sides of the leg are tapered, I used both a bevel and square to knife the bottom line.
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Once the knife line was scribed around the leg, I repositioned the gauge against the knife line, held the banding against the gauge and knifed the upper line.
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I set up a router plane to depth and used that mark the baseline. I chiseled a knife wall and using a pull saw, I cut down to the baseline.
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Then a chisel to take out most of the waste and the router plane to clean it up.
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