re: Luggage Stand

@Ron Stewart - Thank you. I love your work too. Top notch!

@Moke - There is a learning curve with leathercraft, just like any other handcraft but I've always maintained that if you are proficient working with your hands in one craft like woodwork, the learning curve is less than it would be if leathercraft was the first craft you were trying to do with your hands. You will already have an appreciation (albeit subconsciously) of the wonderful circle of creativity that happens when you use hand tools, where your brain is instantly telling your hands what micro-adjustments to make and your sense of feel, your hearing and your eyesight is feeding back to your brain so it knows what to further adjustments should happen next. This happens without us thinking about it, but the fact that you are in tune with it, translates to any further craft you might take up.

@Dave - I was under strict instructions not to change anything, just replicate the original. Who am I to argue?

@Corelz125 - When my wife showed me the picture, I drew out the front elevation freehand on the back of a roll of wallpaper to get the curves right. Once I'd drawn it, I realised that the outer curvature of the legs didn't come in as much as it did in the picture, but my wife said she liked the way I'd drawn it and not to change it. Since the outer slots go through the mortise and tenon joints, I did twin tenons either side of each slot so you didn't see the tenon after the slot was cut. I left the outer curvature of the legs until I'd glued up the tenons so I could clamp the joint squarely. The curves were achieved by sawing down to my line at about 1" intervals and the knocking off the blocks with a chisel. Then I used a rasp to get closer to my line and refined the curves with a spokeshave and finished with a bit of sanding.