Peter Kramer Cabinetmaker

The customer selected the configuration that they liked best and the shop drawings of the leg components details were begun in PowerCADD using WildTools. The leg takes shape as follows. Four pieces of cherry wood 2 1/2" square and 36" long were quartered lengthwise into 4 pieces 1 1/8" square. The original outside corners are turn inside out so that what was the center now are the outside corners, and they are glued together with newspaper in between the sections.

Here's a close-up view of the turning pattern. If you're having trouble visualizing the leg, then now you know how people feel when Einstein explained for the first time that the universe is like a doughnut turned inside out.

Sam Dwyer cuts the turning patterns. Once they have dried overnight they are mounted on a lathe and turned to the design I have drawn in the computer. Using the Mac with System X and the newest version of PowerCADD and WildTools permits me to print a full-scale drawing in PostScript from an Epson printer with accurate smooth curving lines. These drawing are given to the cabinetmaker that will actually make this piece, in this case, Sam Dwyer so that he can make a full size pattern from which to work.

Turning the legs. If you've been following closely, you know that he's actually turning four pieces that have been glued together with newspaper between them.

Sam splits the leg. Once the turnings are completed the legs are spit apart along the seams containing the newspaper.

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