[TheForge] How to layout an oval

Sun Feb 24 00:57:18 2002

Larry 

Making an elipse is fairly easy. Draw your centre lines + shape, so they bisect each other. On the one end point of your 52" line draw an arc 45" long, crossing the 90" line (in the two places), this is where you put the string ends. Take a string (you need 90"s, plus the amount you need for tying the knots) from where the arc crosses the line to the end point of the 52" line and then up to the other point the arc crossed. Now draw your elipse with a pencil following the tight string. 

I hope you can understand this, maybe some one else can explain it better

If you are making alot of elipses I would make a jig, maybe like the one mentioned in a previous post. Mine looked like a one of those do nothing toys, AKA BS grinder. You could set one up for torch cutting, mine was for a router, they work on the same principle, long and short arc, and are quick to make.

Daryl
"Larry Zoeller" <[email protected]> wrote:

>To all,
>In the near future I am going to make a Dinning Room table with a 52" x 90"
>oval table top.  My question is how do you layout the oval table top.  I
>know that I have seen this done on a woodworking show one time, but I can
>not remember how they did it.  It seems that I have seen some type of tool
>that you can use to do the layout. Any help with this would be greatly
>appreciated.
>Thanks in advance
>Larry Zoeller
>
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