Hans Wegner's "Bukkestolen" #4: Trimming legs to shape

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This is part 4 in a 9 part series: Hans Wegner's "Bukkestolen"

With the leg finger joints complete, I could trim the legs to their final shape.   This could have been done more quickly on the table saw with a purpose-built tapering jig, but I have to use my table saw outside and it was a miserable day, so I opted to use a router template in the workshop.

The legs have the outer shoulders of the finger joint, so to simplify centering the template on the leg, I glued-on a finger from the trial scrap as a key to index into the center gap of the leg fingers.



On the lower end, I marked the center of the work and center of the template.


All the legs marked for rough trimming on the band saw.


Rough cut.


Trimmed to final shape on the router table with the template taped in place.


All trimmed.


Checking to see how thing are shaping up.

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shaping up nicely ross. pun intended 😁

working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

It’s interesting watching how you do things. To shape the legs, I would’ve drawn lines, sawn a bit oversize (probably on the bandsaw, but possibly with a panel saw if I was feeling energetic), then grabbed my fore plane and planed down to the lines. Get to the same place, but fairly different paths to get there.

May you have the day you deserve!

Thanks, guys.  Dave - if I was more of a hand-tool craftsman, that would have been a great alternative.  I definitely need to up my game in that area.
Definitely, Ross. Mostly I like thinking about “how would I do this if I couldn’t do it with hand tools?” and seeing what I come up with. Your approaches often give me an alternative I hadn’t initially thought of.

This morning I needed to make a curved piece of oak for a fireplace screen for our curved fireplace. I took a steel yardstick and tied a piece of string between its two hang-holes, drew that line on the wood, sawed close to it with the bandsaw, and then got out the spokeshave to fair it. I imagine you’d be using a router. Different strokes.

May you have the day you deserve!

The planned rolling bevel on the top concave edges of the arms is crying out for a spokeshave.  First, I have to buy a spokeshave.   😁
My two favorite spokeshaves are the HNT Gordon small curved spokeshave and a large one I made myself from the Ron Hock spokeshave kit but the Lie-Nielsen Boggs spokeshave is also good.

May you have the day you deserve!

I’ve pre-spent some retirement money to order the LN Boggs.  I sense another rabbit hole to go down collecting spokeshaves.   On my next purchase I’ll check out your recommendations.   Thanks!
when i did my maloof rocker that had a ton of shaping i bought the veritas 3 piece set. they worked quite well.

working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

I probably also had just jused a table saw, and then hand planed to size+finish. But this method is probably closer to how the chairs were made in the workshop at that time - and i like that approach. Staying true to the original

"The good chair is a task one is never completely done with" Hans Wegner

I need to work on my hand-tool skills so that planing to shape is a viable option.
Hand planing makes for happy shop time. Every time

"The good chair is a task one is never completely done with" Hans Wegner