my 18th century copy...

Re: my 18th century copy...

darrin hill

it looks ok until u study it....

but its thicker at the cove than the other... and the ball is thicker, vertically...

but i did the measurments off another leg... so dunno...

close enough for govt. work... and it was a gift to him, so he can't complain...

and its the first foot i've ever copied from a drawing..

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Re: my 18th century copy...

josh bowman

And I bet if the originals were hand turned they'd have differences. Looks good to my eye.

Re: my 18th century copy...

john lucas

Ditto what Josh said. It looks pretty good. Not perfect but definitely good enough. Without having an original right next to me to compare the actual shapes of beads and ogee's it next to impossible to get them correct. Your friend will be happy.

Re: my 18th century copy...

John K Jordan

I think it looks great. Now a challenge is to finish (and distress as needed) to reasonably match the other.

JKJ

That'll do nicely!

Re: my 18th century copy...

Alan Zenreich

Darrin,

This is a good example of where using live video while woodturning could have helped out. Having a photo of the target shape overlaid on the workpiece makes it easier to match the original.

I showed this short video at the AAW symposium in Pittsburgh, perhaps it could be useful in the future.

https://youtu.be/0kYF3fgwhBs

Lauren used one of the techniques to exactly match a particular egg shape.

I am making detailed videos for each of the techniques shown in this overview.