Bill St. Pierre shows how to cut and turn a tapering spiral wood table leg using a drill press, Jet lathe, grinders and sanders. His custom furniture shop, St. Pierre Woodworking, Floyd, VA, hand ...

The twisted leg went out of style in the second half of the 18th century, when curved legs came into fashion. The 19th-century chair or table started with a straight leg, but by the 1850s some ...