Carving the Heel

This part turned out to be not as bad as I had expected.  I started with the heel block which I built up earlier from several blocks of mahogany.

I marked the top where the heel cap will end up and I marked the sides so that I could take a rough cut out of the block.  You can see I marked the sides in the wrong place first and then I corrected it.  I used a coping saw and here's what the block looked like after the rough cut.

Next, I made a few intermediate cuts with the coping saw the take out small pieces of the wood. 

Once I had a good start by doing that, I used my drum sander bit on the drill press to smooth out the curves.  I'll finalize the heel later, but it is pretty close to what it will look like.