. Furniture designing and draughting, notes on the elementary forms, methods of construction and dimensions of common articles of furniture . ©. not needed to stiffen the support. Tables having legs like Nos. 7and 8, Plate II., do not look well without stretchers; the balusterforms of the turnings and the heavy foot of each leg seeming todemand a framework binding the supports together. Turnings are used continually in the construction of furniture, andthey always appear smaller than a square stick of the same dimen-sions. This is apparent in the above illustrations. No. i shows theprojection
. Furniture designing and draughting, notes on the elementary forms, methods of construction and dimensions of common articles of furniture . ©. not needed to stiffen the support. Tables having legs like Nos. 7and 8, Plate II., do not look well without stretchers; the balusterforms of the turnings and the heavy foot of each leg seeming todemand a framework binding the supports together. Turnings are used continually in the construction of furniture, andthey always appear smaller than a square stick of the same dimen-sions. This is apparent in the above illustrations. No. i shows theprojection of the corner of a parallelopiped beyond the inscribed 22 TABLES. cylinder turned from it. The angular projection exists whenever anabrupt change from a square to a turned section is made. As thisis objectionable in furniture work, it is cut away by rounding off theangle, as in No. 2, or by moulding it, as in No. 3. Nevertheless, if,as in these examples, the diameter of the cylinder and the side ofthe square are the same, the turning appears so much smaller thanthe square portion of the stick that the transition is too great. When the des
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