After sketching your table leg pattern, you must transfer the design to your wood turning stock.Wood Turning and Woodworking - Advanced Project
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The third step in this project shows you how to mount your stock (in this case, oak) for the table legs on the lathe, how to measure your table leg pattern, and how to mark your wood turning stock to transfer your pattern. You will "see" the leg in the stock before you actually begin your woodturning. When I find the center of the turning stock, I measure from all four corners. If my handmade stock is not exactly three inches square, I will still find the center. Once the four lines have have been drawn, you will have a little square in the center. I use an awl to punch the center hole. If you do not have an awl, just use any object that you have available that will make an indent in the center. Now, when I mount the head of the stock on the wood lathe, I mount the pin in the hole as you can see in the third picture below. The foot is marked and mounted in the same way.
After I have mounted the turning stock on the lathe, I need to have a good idea of what the leg is going to look like after I turn it. That is - the first leg. The other three legs will, of course, be turned to match the first one. The first thing I will do is sketch the leg on a piece of paper. Then I tape the picture close to the lathe so that I can see it and measure the pattern using both a rule and calipers. (Looking at the picture below, you will see the sketch of a bed post beside the table leg. Cody and I made a bed for his parents as one of Cody's apprentice projects. You can see Cody and me turning a bed post from that sketch if you go to Apprentice 1.)
Draw Table Leg Pattern
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You can use the pictures below to see what I am doing and what you should do if you are using this project to make your own turned table legs. You can "see the leg" in the last picture.
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