Custom "Dragon" Trellis

**kzmich** · 06-05-2012, 05:17 PM

I am a student studying Engineering Management Technology and woodworking has been a hobby of mine for a long time. This is a trellis I designed with purely my imagination on the computer using a Google program called "Sketchup". I was interested in seeing if I could build something in real time after designing it on this program with proportionality limits found my measuring the desired location of the end product. I created this design to hold complicated angels and measurements to really test the ability to take a design built directly onto the computer and build it in real time. So I have included the design I created from the computer and the finished product, after a few outside changes to the base, the dimension's for the construction of the "Dragon" support holding the trellis was copied directly from the computer. I would be interested in any feed back along with questions anyone may have.

Thanks, kzmich

**deepsplinter** · 06-06-2012, 06:30 AM

Too cool!!

Looks just like the drawing!! (I can't seem to do that)

The sketchup drawing kinda looks like my last back X-ray.

Cedar?

What type jointery?

Oh, where are my manners? Welcome to the forum!

**kzmich** · 06-07-2012, 11:46 AM

thanks allot deepsplinter! and yes everything except for the base which is just treated 2x4's is cedar. The segments are connected with a sort of hybrid mortis and tendon which is easier to see in the pictures on my profile I uploaded. thanks for the interest and good to be apart of the forum!!