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Since such great work was done in the end of the dwarf clock class I thought I'd add some end of week info.

Once the hood of the clock was assembled, the urned molding was glued on and the returns added. This is a bit tricky because you really only have one chance to get the cut on the arched piece right.…

In the past month or so I've been  teaching on my home turf and away.

In early March I traveled to the Woodcraft in Norfolk, Va.on the invitation of Steve Houmis, an employee, cabinetmaker and class director of the store. We spent 4 days building a small 18th century case in order to learn the basics of early case construction.Thanks to Steve for the photo.…

I just chose a cartouche to use in my upcoming carving class at Marc Adam's school next week and did a runthrough yesterday to figure out how to approach it. 

This is the sequence of operations, documented sporadically as I made my way through it. The wood is 5/8" white pine, although the real one would be mahogany, and probably larger than this 9 1/2" sample.

First thing I do is decide…

I assume the intaglio carving on the Townsend leg is incised with a V-tool. Is this very precise carving where the modification of lowering the heel and wing angles that you showed previously comes in handy? It would seem that the downside of this modification would be a less durable edge, though maybe not a problem in mahagony.

Howard Steier