French Feet Finished

[Scoony]

WOW! Those feet look fabulous. look forward to more progress.

[MsNomer]

That is amazing! Woulda never thunk it.

[Bill Holt]

Amen on what she said.

I sure am glad John asked for details!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr Eddie]

How's that for alliteration? :>)

The Federal slant top desk I'm building has French Feet. They're one of the things I like best about the style. I've wondered for years how they are done, but I never found any good written instructions on the procedure. A friend, who is a much better woodworker than I am, taught me how; and I've applied the lessons to my desk. I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Here are some photos:

2E3B2073-BD2F-484B-8318-335203860A91 by Hank Knight, on Flickr

CD1852D5-8C90-4723-9E6E-AFB8D89D3111 by Hank Knight, on Flickr

4E9961B1-F71D-4EE1-950C-3D29F1C90EF4 by Hank Knight, on Flickr

02DAE1AB-B65E-4F22-8C19-0BADBCEAC456 by Hank Knight, on Flickr

Thanks for looking.

Now that is slick!  Many thanks Hank for posting this and tell your friend 'Thanks' too.

Lonnie

[shoottmx]

A truly elegant piece. Your description of creating the french feet is well very done and interesting. Thanks for posting

g

[Halfathumb]

Now I have to considering making something else. 

[Arlin Eastman]

Hi, John.

Thanks for the compliment. The process is fairly long. I posted lengthy descriptions of it on both WoodCentral and Lumberjocks with lots of photos. I think they put everybody to sleep. They generated very little interest, so I thought I'd spare WoodNetters and forego the long post here. If you're interested, here's the link to my post on Lumberjocks:

https://www.lumberjocks.com/MPython/blog/130922

If my posting a link to another forum violates WoodNet rules, I apologize and ask the moderators to delete it.

Hank

You go by (MPython) at LJ's??

I love the legs on it for sure.

[Hank Knight]

Hank

You go by (MPython) at LJ's??

I love the legs on it for sure.

Yep, Arlin. That's me. I'm MPython on LJ.
I'm glad you like the feet. Thanks for looking.

[stav]

Very inventive technique.  I never would have guessed it was made that way.

[Tapper]

Very nicely done, Hank! Thanks a bunch for the instructive photos.

Doug