Seems to me like a lot of unnecessary steps. Isn’t it simpler to use a thin piece of wood and then flex it to the radius you want. What are you thoughts? Do you find this method and simpler and why?
Drawing an Arc
Seems to me like a lot of unnecessary steps. Isn’t it simpler to use a thin piece of wood and then flex it to the radius you want. What are you thoughts? Do you find this method and simpler and why?
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The procedure shown gives an arc of a circle. (constant curvature along the line) ( the curvature is the local radius)
A flexed strip of wood will give an arc with maximum curvature at the (here) central nail and a null curvature at the two outside nails.
They are both interesting but not interchangeable; It depends of what you need.
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This. Here is an example from a recent project.
This first photo is of a mock-up I did using the drawing-bow method: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19qeploSY2Xf30fCp4kye_fXH45oq-gXQ/view?usp=sharing
This is the final completed piece that I laid out using a long beam (2×4) compass: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Cs2hB9PA0iYwvrdjmDUursA4HvswO4F/view?usp=sharing
This method from the article looks much less awkward!
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Why didn’t you just use the mock up to trace the outline? Btw really nice stand.
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Thanks! I made them both from templates. I didn’t like the curvature of the mock-up, which came from the template made with the drawing bow.
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All my curves I draw in autocad and print them off. I then glue temp glue them on the wood and work from that.
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