Hi folks, I am trying to make a reeded leg and not sure how to get the fluted portion into my leg? I have the basic leg built like I want with the proportions but not sure how to finish it?
I have attached my leg and a copy of a leg I sort of want to mimic. I have been searching
I just saw this after answering you in your other post. I wouldn’t call the one you’ve indicated a reeded leg. That’s got stopped flutes. I’ve done one on that, too, I think. I’ll have to hunt.
Edit to add: I found a fluted newel post but evidently the tutorial I did on it seems to have vaporized.
Of course your right Dave, I guess its not a full reeded leg I am after but just the, how do I say it, the grooves in the leg I would like to be able to do?
Almost as if you took a router tool and added them to the leg after it was turned, if that makes sense??
I watched the video on how to make a reeded leg you did and OMG!!!
That’s a common way to make fluted legs. In general, the method I use is to draw a sort of long sausage with rounded ends. Thing of that as the cutter. Intersect that with the turned leg and erase the waste.
Hi Dave, I have attached a few pics of what I think I should do as per your reply. I am watching videos on cutouts and intersecting faces, but its a little confusing? I have the solid tools in my tool bar but a little uncertain as to what to do to get that stopped flute I want?
By the same principle, using the solid tools you can trim the square part of the leg using the same tools.
Create a spherical shape as a group and align and size it to suit the trim/chamfer. With both selected I then used the “split” solid tool and then deleted the unwanted parts.
With a little forethought and the right approach you can make very nice transitions and appropriate from the turned section to the pommel. Like on these reeded columns. I used the same method on the tops of the reeds as well. I’ll send you a link
The same basic process works for these Queen Anne style legs with the offset foot, too.
I thought I’d sent you a link to the tutorial for that.
I had a try to see if I could produce something like that, it’s a lot simpler than a finished leg but I try to show here how I did it. I don’t know whether it’s any good or not…
Your illustrations are correct. Jay should have asked for a fluted lug instead of a reeded leg. the five legs in the image I posted earlier are reeded.