I just completed Allan Breed's class "Carving in the Newport Style". A great class and highly recommended to anyone interested in Newport carving or just carving in general. One of the biggest reasons I took the class was so that I could get the know-how to carve the Newport style ball and claw feet and knee carvings. I know that there are at least a couple of people on this site that have built this table and I was wondering if anyone can offer their techniques for carving the top. In particular hogging out the excess material from the top. I am fairly confident I can handle the molding carving I am just looking for the best way to get rid of the excess material. My first thought is to use a router to get as close to the molding outline of the molding as possible and then carve to the line to complete the junction of the table top and the bottom round over of the molding. The only way I can think of doing this is free-hand with the router because of the ogee shape of the top. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
Thanks,
Brian