The Down to Earth Woodworker: Noodling Out the Desk Design

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Uploaded by on Jan 3, 2011

Highland Woodworking's Down to Earth Woodworker "Noodles Out" the design for the new desk he is building.

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  • @mojoeshaw - Excellent comments! Were I more confident in my woefully lacking freehand drawing ability, your method would work great! Drawing just one half of the arch and flipping the template over would assure symmetry, too. But my freehand drawing ability is pretty poor. By using a "compass" I could be sure. As far as the string - I had mentioned it in the video, but that clip got cut in the final edit - I used masonry twine, a type of string that doesn't stretch.

    Thanks again!

  • Forgive me but wouldn't it have all been easier to free hand on some cardboard or cardboard paper and free handed your design with the two reference points of where you wanted to touch the apron and where the tenon meets the leg? Then you could cut out the cardboard with some scissors, trace the lines on your wood and then flip it over and trace a mirror image going to the other leg. Cheaper for sure and exact. The only reason I suggest this is the fact that strings stretch.

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