Step 4 Repeat the same thing with the next section of the leg, here you can see how the tapering we did in the previous step looks.  Now the leg looks something like this:  Step 5  Now it’s time to enhance the joints! For this I use a thick sewing thread.  Take a long piece of the thread and tie a loose overhand knot and slip it over the leg and place it in the inner “slot” that were created by the tweezers in step one.  Pull hard and evenly in both ends of the thread to tighten the knot, slowly increase the pressure until the thread breaks! The main reason I use a thread that eventually breaks is that it doesn’t cut through the tube and also the problem with removing the knot doesn’t exist.   Now you have done the first enhancing of the joint  Step 6 Now do the exact same thing but on the outer “slot” of the joint: tie an overhand knot, slip the thread over the leg into the slot created by the tweezer, slowly pull at the knot and increase pressure until the thread breaks.  Now the joint should look something like this:  So will not the joints eventually go back to how it looked because we don’t use heat to do this enhancing? So far I have not seen anything that points to that. I think that as long as you apply varnish to the leg they will stay like this.  Step 7 Repeat the same procedures for the upper joint  Inner slot:  Outer slot:  So now it’s starting to look good!  continue to page 3 >>   Hatches Magazine Subscription Price: $6.95 for each issue The Premiere issue is ready for shipping & the Fall 2008 issue will be available September 1st.