WANTED: components for chair

[titmas]

my latest woodworking commission involves building a set of chairs to for display in a local museum and fortunately for me, they have one of the original(1905) surviving chairs for use as a reference. before i begin making sawdust i want to model the chair in SU so i can use it as a source for plotting templates for some of the curved pieces in full scale. the chair is relatively simple in design but it does includes some volutes and cabriolet legs. im looking for some cabriolet leg components to use versus drawing them myself. im looking for a furniture library that has an assortment of different chair models. i guess i could also draw them myself if there was a tut on the process out there. anybody have any info on either? i attached a pic of the chair so you can see what im trying to achieve and can compare it with the finished chair, both digital and wooden.

[Dave R]

I think there are several tutorials out there on drawing cabriole legs but they aren't terribly difficult to do. Basically you draw the front elevation and the side elevation and extrude them through each other. Then intersect the extrusions and delete the waste. The rounding of the front corner is a little more involved but you could create a path for Follow Me from the corner resulting from the intersection or you could create horizontal sections, round the corners of those sections and then use the Skin plugin to make the faces.

I would be inclined to draw these legs from scratch because I expect you'd work harder modifying a typical cab leg to make it look like the ones on the chair.

Have you already had an opportunity to take measurements? Do you have ready access to the chair?

It looks like a very nice piece.

Dave