Diagonal grain on non-bearing feet - necessity?
Scott in Douglassville, PA
>Hello, all -
Ok, promise: nearing the end of stupid blanket chest questions. Today's innane query: Does the grain on non-bearing, applied feet really need to be run diagonally, or is it done as an aesthetic convention?
The six-board chest I'm funmbling with calls for the front feet to be cut with diagonal grain (as shown here). The back feet, cut from secondary wood, are glued with the grain running vertically. Since I'm painting this chest, running the grain horizontally in the front would simplify things a lot. Frankly, with finger securely in splint, I'm not real comfortable with the gyrations involved in cutting the foot blanks out diagonally, either.
So, there you go - do I need the grain diagonal or not?
Scott, scratching the noggin'