Cabriole Leg Drawing

This is the hinge.

Cabriole leg drawing. Chair Legs CAD Drawings Albany Sofa Foot. Cabriole Legs The Analysis of Beauty. The basic problem we have to solve today is to transition the square termination of the Upper Leg to the round termination of the Pad.

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. When taken in small steps forming a cabriole leg is straitforward work. In the next and final installation of An Intermediate Google SketchUp Tutorial we will attempt a carving that is the drawing of an oft used carving in woodworking.

In his book he laid out six underlying principles by which all good art is. If you think cabriole legs are out of reach think again. 10242007 115150 AM.

Drawing Cabriole Legs. The upper arc is convex while lower is concave. The graceful S-curve and pad foot of these iconic eighteenth century furniture legs may look hard to make but youll be surprised how simple they can be with a few hand tools and a little hand-eye coordination.

Cut out the paper drawing of the cabriole leg. 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. A tutorial on creating a cabriole leg in SketchUp from a magazine picture.

Create a cabriole legs template or use a pre-made template you print out online. Both should look like the picture at left. 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.