Have been dreading this next adventure of attaching the legs and getting both front and back legs in alignment. Wonder how any one would attack this chore?

 

I drilled the bottom of the legs so I could stick a dowel in to hold them while spraying on the clear.. 

 

I have already attached the legs but was wondering how anyone else would handle this chore. Will take a picture and post it soon.

 

Are those holes for dowels to form a cradle? 

Gene I meant to leave the last picture out of that post.  This way a guy could maybe figure out how he would go about it for there is no exact place to start measuring ...Those holes and dowels were almost from a blind mans eyes. Lining up 4 holes on the front and 4 on the back and to get the front in line with the back took a mornings worth of thinking plus the whole day yesterday. I laid the parts out on my 20x30 inch graph paper and with a few wood block here and there I finally decided to drill some holes in the legs then trying to match up those holes on the clock body on the area where I had carved which was somewhat hilly made me grit my teeth each time the drill bit dug in to the wood????

  Thinking this out originally I had intended on placing flowers over the dowel holes but now I think I will stick stained buttons in the holes and place the flowers elsewhere??

  No cradle. Glued in dowels. This part of the build went smoother than I had expected!!!!

Gotcha. 

Too late But I was thinking that the dowel holes could be on he back only , that is not a thru hole. As to alignment mark a line on the clock side (top) on each leg with the pair clamped together, extend the line to the back and drill. I know too late, just athought.