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Not yet Mike, I have them all drawn up for CNC'ing but what I was planning was to get the poplar and have some practice with my plane and see if I can master it and suss out which method suits me best. If I think I might be able to do it then I would order up the jig for the first curve , sort...

Thanks Pete, As it stands I don't have the space for a table saw but my first thought was that that might be the quickest way of approaching it. For the first section of the job I would need 26 staves all beveled on one long edge and all bevels differ slightly and each of the 26 staves are...

Fantastic post, thanks!

Ah, I have made hot glue (rabbit skin glue if my guess is right) for priming canvas and noticed Titebond do a version, might that be a good choice? I will take your advice Jacob and not be too precious with my first run. Sorry I meant to say thickness, these curves will need to fair down to a...

Ok, so plane bevels as I go to fit and once I am happy with that part glue up in stages and then fair. This will be a learning curve (boom boom) for me so I won't treat the first attempt like the final job more of a matter of seeing how this particular method works in reality then adapt it if I...

Thanks Andy, yes, thats the idea. I was thinking that leaving the 90 degree bevels would halve the amount of work and leave some fairing but the reality of this process is an unknown to me. I am going to have to carefully consider my starting widths.

Thanks for the continued discussion, much appreciated. I am just about to have a trial run at a few methods and see if I can turn my hand to this and just wanted to check how people feel about my methods shown in the drawings of leaving a 90 degree angle on one side of the piece and beveling the...

I see what you mean Oscar and did try that out of interest with plywood and locating dowels for each component, it was not 100% successful but perfectly passable. The issue I have is that I must adhere to the original methods of building but as Jacob has pointed out short of sawing an original...

The curve.

I could see the joins through the paint quite clearly and there didn't seem to be any signs of filling but you might well be correct. I think it might be asking a lot on the first run to get things perfect so the fall back is to paint it but I would like to try. I have re drawn the curve to...

Sure, it is however a good choice for sound qaulity in this particular application and also what was used originally. I know poplar is not known for it's alluring beauty but again, I am somewhat hemmed in regarding materials choice.

Mike was correct in his assumptions that the originals were painted but I am trying to avoid that if I can hence the pursuit of good bevels.

Thanks again Mike, I will be certain to do that. The actual method to make the adjustments are still not decided but I am wondering if the shooting board idea (obviously my previous drawings on the design would have to be doctored somewhat) would be the way to go. Maybe its just a matter of...

Thank you Mike! Great advice, we all have to start somewhere, believe it or not I am not a total cretin in terms of woodwork it's just that I have never done anything like this before. I am going to adjust my drawings and post them up so that you can give the approach thumbs up or thumbs down...

Yes, thanks Jacob and i understand in theory what all of those methods entail so I hope in realty I might be able to get some half decent results. If it were not for the help here I would have likely used the rail saw, probably slightly undercut on every bevel on my drawing but now I think I...

Cheer up Mike, I have made it clear that I am asking for advice on something that I have never done and from that perspective what might appear an obvious method to an experienced woodworker, I have to look into it and understand what it means. One might expect a slightly more lenient approach...

Jacob, thanks for you insights, I completely agree with your assessment, I would never have been able to tell if we were looking at 90 degree bevels or 91 degree bevels but thats all I had to work with. What you have suggested may well be true and is a great insight and just what I am looking...

I don't have any photos to hand but my process was to measure the width of the front and back face and draw in the bevels so the drawings are a good reference I believe, there is no way to actually see the cross sectional cut lines as the sides are covered. The only datum I had was the start...

Jacob and Beau, thanks for your insights, very helpful. Jacob, unfortunately my drawings are not wildly inaccurate guess work, they are precise transcriptions to the actual object itself. I do realize that the bevels are all differing by tiny amounts from stave to stave. All I am assuming is...

Right, moving on, it might be an idea for me to explain that I am copying a pre existing design, the drawings demonstrate the conclusion of my back engineering process. I am sure many other and possibly better ways of constructing this curve might be possible and the suggestions have all been...