Continue to shape the knuckles using a rasp and finish smoothing the knuckles with sand paper.

 

Sanding and shaping the knuckle hand-rests is a never quite done kind of thing. This is the first of a number of sanding sessions that I find myself doing. After I carve the volutes on the sides of the knuckles, I sand. Sanding the volutes, and then gently rounding over the outer knuckles and blending these fearures with the volutes...well more sanding. Even after assembling the chair, I find myself sitting in the chair with a pad of sand paper in each hand sanding, deepening the webs to high light the the knuckles, and smooth any remaining chisel marks.