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He got a photo from all sides and then brought them into GIMP to edit it down to just the silhouette of his leg. Then it was used to make a template and print it out full scale
This starts the process of taking off some weight of the leg. Then he spread glue on each layer and made a leg sandwich. The leg is clamped to keep it together.
After letting the glue dry overnight he took the leg blank out of the clamps. With the bandsaw he was able to make this piece the right shape in 2 dimensions and now it needed to be established in the 3rd dimension
He marked the lines on both sides, he needed to connect each side in order to establish the shape of the left and ride side of the leg. Then it was time for some power carving
He rounded things over to give this thing a real leg shape
Then he power carved out the inside of each piece to reduce weight and to establish a route from top to bottom where the wire will run up to the light. Once he was satisfied with the inside, he glued and clamped the 2 halves back together.
With the glue dry, the final shaping was done by just sanding through the grits
For the bottom plate, he cut down another piece of the maple butcher block scraps to a circle slightly larger than the boot and center the boot in place
He looped it over and over along the top and bottom of each side panel and then did the same thing running up each of the 4 corners pulling everything nice and tight.