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WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 20:
The bracket feet look pretty fancy -- and take some time -- but really aren’t difficult to make. Don’t make them as four separate pieces, but as a box that’s cove-cut around the perimeter. After this, the box is cut apart and the Bandsaw is used to do the scroll work. The left, front and right sides of the box are made of 1-3/4-inch thick stock . . . the back of 3/4-inch stock. The two front corners are spline-mitered (see Figure 3), but once they’re coved and contoured, they look like there’s no joint at all.
Used a wooden template to maintain the pattern on the matching feet. The tight curves caused me to have to use relief cuts on the Bandsaw to ease them to completion. Used a rabbeting plane to help smooth the outside curves on the feet. Some Drum Sanders are small enough to fit a number of the tight curves of the bracket design, but few are long enough for the really thick stock. So, I used small files and sandpaper wrapped around small dowel rods for these.
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