Cabriole Leg Drawing
The upper curve always bows outward while the lower curve bows inward.
Cabriole leg drawing. Lowe starts with the drawing and then demonstrates a few ways to conquer this leg. As you can see it already looks a lot like the familiar cabriole shapee rest of the shaping of the leg is going to be done while the blank is securely clamped. For your convenience Ive posted a picture with this blog showing a table leg 27 tall - or about 32 tall and a chair leg 13 or about 16 tall that you can use.
Lowe guides you step by step through his process for making the classic cabriole leg a common feature on 18th-century furniture. Use any kind of craft glue or double-stick tape to apply the drawing to the sides of the table leg blank. Typically when cab legs are shown in a SketchUp model they are just shown with a hard line over the knee and down to the foot.
Carved cabriole leg 3 1 2 1 To make the armature out of wood and wire cut two pieces of plywood to represent where the top will be placed to the leg. Joined Jul 17 2008 223 Posts. Draw a 170mm square for the location to screw the wooden armature and placement of the sculpture wire.
This is just a short explanation of laying out and cutting a simple version of. I wanted something a bit better than that and this is what Ive come up. In this episode Lowe gives the basic steps to drawing your own plans for a cabriole leg giving you an opportunity to customize it.
Make the cut as usual but leave about 116 inch or 18 inch of material. Learn to create this classic furniture detail using a template a band saw and a little lathe work. Jump to Latest Follow 1 - 4 of 4 Posts.
The first step in the process is to draw the shape of your cabriole leg or find one on the Internet or in a book featuring furniture with cabriole legs. Both should look like the picture at left. The cabriole leg is actually quite simple to make if you follow the correct sawing sequence.
