Woodworker's Journal 2009-33-1, страница 29
a turned pedestal that supports a top surrounded by a shallow turned lip. But this somewhat stripped-down and "Shakerized" version offers only a smattering of the turned and carved detail characteristic of the American Chippendale examples from which it evolved. Turning the Pedestal The pedestal consists of a succession of turned beads, coves and vases. After roughing in the cylinder, I marked these elements by transferring them from a story stick (see top photo for details), then created the beads with a skew chisel and the coves with a 3/8" fingernail gouge. I added a l"-diameter, 13/16"-long tenon at the top of the pedestal, which you'll later fit into a mortise drilled into the bottom of the top support and the top itself. The vertical centerline of each of the three legs is exactly 120 degrees apart from the other two. These distances are most easily located through the use of an indexing head. An indexing head is a disk centered on the lathe's axis of rotation with a number of equally spaced stop holes drilled near its circumference. It is a truly helpful feature now found on most lathes. My lathe has 36 holes, so the distance between two adjacent holes is exactly 10 degrees. s/8" 27,6" 7/16" Pedestal and Bottom Disk Elevation Drawings Before beginning any new piece of furniture, the author makes a set of story sticks. This piece required two such sticks. One is a pattern for the cabriole leg profile, and the other is the stick shown above, on which the elements of the turned pedestal have been marked off. This simple marking gauge allows the author to draw marks on a turned spindle that are perfectly parallel to its axis of rotation. To mark the locations of the leg mortises, he stops the lathe's rotation by engaging the locking pin on its indexing head. He then slides the jig (pencil point pressing lightly against the object) along the bed to scribe a straight line. Woodworker's Journal February 2009 29 |
