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Carve a Ball-and-Claw Foot
with Phil Lowe
Making a hallmark of 18th-century furniture
The ball-and-claw foot, combined with the cabriole leg, is a hallmark of 18th-century furniture. Here, Phil Lowe shows you how to design and carve the version made popular in Colonial Philadelphia.
You will learn about:
the history of the cabriole leg
making leg-profile patterns
refining the shapes with spokeshaves, rasps and files
laying out the ball and claw on the foot of the blank
rough-carving with straight and spoon gouges
sharpening carving tools
rounding out the legs
scraping and varnishing
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