Garden bridge made from Bunnings fence palings

[Poppop]

[caxelby]

Hi Poppop, I am relatively new to woodworking and am self taught this far. I have a somewhat silly question about the underneath supports for your garden bridge. How did you mark out the nice curve, especially so that both sides are exactly the same?

[MitchellMc]

Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community @caxelby. It's wonderful to have you join us, and many thanks for your question about creating a curve on timber.

Hopefully, @Poppop can get back to us with his method, but in the meantime, here's a method you can try. Take a length of string, fix it to a solid point, and tie a pencil on the other end. Place your timber on the ground and adjust the length of the string to suit your desired arc. Whilst holding the string taught, mark out your arc. Once you've cut out your arc, you can transfer it to the other section of timber by placing it on top and marking around its perimeter.

As long as you keep the string taught, you can get some really accurate arcs with this method.

Were you considering building this wonderful project? If so, we'd love to see some pictures once you're done.

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Mitchell

 

[Poppop]

Hi @caxelby There was actually no Science to how i made the arches. I marked the middle of the board and drew the curves freehand to meet at the middle point. It took a few goes to get the curve I wanted. I then clamped a second board to the first and cut the arch out with a jigsaw to get two identical arches.

Good luck with your project.
                                                              Dave.

[caxelby]

  

Thanks to this post and the group here, I have made my first garden bridge! Made from treated pine supports and Merbau pailings. Learnt many things making this! Thanks all!!

[MitchellMc]

What a fabulous result, @caxelby! You've created a neat feature that I'm sure would be quite at home in many of our gardens.

Well done, and many thanks for sharing your results, as I trust they'll inspire many of our members to give the project a go themselves.

Mitchell

[Jason]

Let me also add my congratulations @caxelby. It's so inspiring to see people have a go and end up with a fantastic result. Well done. 

What are you going to tackle next?

Jason