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   roc | Sep 08, 2012 12:12am | #1

   Angled bits are for canting angle of the legs

   Straight bits will create a joint where the legs are parallel.

   See FWW # 25 Nov. /Dec. 1980

   page 54

   https://www.finewoodworking.com/PlansAndProjects/PlansAndProjectsPDF.aspx?id=2048 

   There are other references to these bits in other issues but that will get you going.

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   sanderdude | Sep 09, 2012 10:24am | #2

   rabbit bits

   Thanks Roc, I get it now but wonder how this will affect the leg to crest rail joint then. I guess I will figure this all out as it unfolds.

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   roc | Sep 09, 2012 02:10pm | #3

   Studying How Sam Did What He Did Is Worth The Trip

   I think it is a mistake to build Maloof without studying Maloof.

   Read every thing you can get your hands on especially all the FWW magazine articles.  Read the one main book and watch videos.

   Here is a link to more discussion that contains links to the DVD and main book.

   http://forums.finewoodworking.com/fine-woodworking-knots/power-tools-and-machinery/what-bandsaw-blade

   Trust me . . .  to figure out how he did what he did is like putting your brain through a food processor.  Especially if you go into it with preconceived woodworking skills.  Sam Maloof was self taught in the real sense of the phrase and what he came up with some times was far removed from "normal" wood craft.

   We are talking about fifty years , and more, of a brilliant person going way out there, 'where no man (or woman) has gone before".  Don't  be surprised if you can't figure it all out in a few weekends at home in the work shop.

   Then he worked super fast and just blew past a lot of layout and machine tool set up that some of us more measuring tool oriented people would have taken for granted.

   Yep he was some thing !

   Do your self a favor . . . even if you never build his stuff . . . study him.  Very entertaining, enlightening and uplifting.

   If you study him you may have a chance at building, if not . . . well . . .

   PS: Mr. Maloof specifically addresses the crest rail to the angled back legs layout and how to drill the holes for the back slats (if you ever need to do that ) in the DVD with him in it.  I don't know about Brock but I would say go to the source for the real gold.