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Carl Eyman
03-28-2003, 1:41 PM
I am trying to help a friend of mine design an altar he's been asked to make. Seems to me with as much design of turned spindles as has been done all the way back to the Greeks and Romans somebody would have put out a book of designs. I'm going to look At Tom Chippendale's work this evening but I'm really looking for something simpler and down t6o earth. Who can point me in right direction?

Steve Clardy
03-29-2003, 4:34 PM
Carl, I turn a lot of staircase balisters and such. I would suggest getting catalogs and viewing what they have then change to your likings. I don't know offhand where there is anything like you are looking for. Thats what I do, just find a design and change it.

Hal Flynt
04-04-2003, 1:05 PM
The ancient Greeks used some proportians that have retained their pleasant appeal referred to the Golden Section:


http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/golden/golden4.html

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Golden.html

And Cyma Curves etc

This is a 21 page pdf file

http://www.pdflibrary.com/Samples/STUDY_OF_THE_ORDERS/1582187339.pdf

Tony Leonard
04-10-2003, 11:47 AM
A good source for stuff like that are multiple books in the Dover collection. The Benjamin Asher series in particular is pretty good.

Actually, spindle designs are pretty simple. There are only a few elements (beads, fillets, etc.). Its a question of how to combine them.

Another good source are antique books and architecture books. You could peruse a few at the library or Barnes & Noble while having a cup of Starbucks! I do that sometimes.

Tony