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Barry N. Turner Barry N. Turner is offline
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Default Turned leg design help

Probably your best bet is to look at some magazines or books that have
furniture designs (Colonial Homes, House Beautiful, etc.) and find something
with a turned leg that can be adapted to your needs.

All turned legs consist of combinations of some very simple elements:
coves, beads, fillets or shoulders. There are also tapers and ogee shapes.
Almost every turned leg design is a combination of some of these shapes.
Since you are turning only one leg, you don't have to worry about making the
other legs match the first one. Don't try to use too many of these elements
on one leg. Keeping it simple is usually best.

Barry


"chuck" wrote in message
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Iam a furniture maker with limited turning experience. iam looking for
a 32" turned leg design. The bottom must be 2 1/2" to fit a round
base. The rest of the column can be anything under 2 1/2". The top
will have a threaded insert and have a speaker screwed to top of
column. Any design help would be appreciated with some beads and coves
that a begginner turner could do.