With the leg finger joints complete, I could trim the legs to their final shape. This could have been done more quickly on the table saw with a purpose-built tapering jig, but I have to use my table saw outside and it was a miserable day, so I opted to use a router template in the workshop.
The legs have the outer shoulders of the finger joint, so to simplify centering the template on the leg, I glued-on a finger from the trial scrap as a key to index into the center gap of the leg fingers.
On the lower end, I marked the center of the work and center of the template.
All the legs marked for rough trimming on the band saw.
Rough cut.
Trimmed to final shape on the router table with the template taped in place.
