cuffs

[Boothill Bob]

Now I'm working on a pair of cuffs for a customer. I think its hard to make them and get
the right messurement, are afraid that they will be to Big or to small.

[Long Juan]

Bob, I sure like your tooling.  That is what I still struggle with mostly.  Nice design, well punched.  I need to practice (and maybe even copy some designs like yours) until I get more experience.  Great work.  Good luck on sizing. 

[KidTerico]

Bob another nice job. I always like youe designs. Just great. KT

[Massive]

The usual approach to this kind of problem if one has the space, etc... is to make a series of forms.  I just got into that this past week.  I am in the process of making wooden forms for hats for, shins, feet and forearms.  Except I started to think the shins and forearms were a little silly since I can sorta work on those parts of my body.  I badly broke one ankle so it is not fully standard, and a form might or not be worth the trouble.  I have a lot of specialist info on doing the shoe part of this.  I have to say though that the shoe field involves both mathematical and more sculpted approach, and if you can model feet with some straight line measurements, I guess one should be able to model wrists. 

Triangles.  If you had a co-operative model you could marker a band low and high on his forearm.  Then you make diagonal lines around his arm reducing the cone to a series of triangles.  While there are bound to be some lumps here and there that make the pattern not completely precise,  You eliminate the problem of having a cone where the meat is on one side but you threw the pattern bulk to another.  I just give the marker example, but I am sure there is a way to do this without making a mess of him.

One way to measure this would be to take a tube of paper the same length as the base cuff, and the diameter of the larger part of the arm.  Slip this intro position and fold down and tape triangular darts until a pattern is developed.