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healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Jan 18, 2017 - 08:01pm PT

Flip flop - turned out gud.

Steve S - I'm just learning to wrassle wood, can't even think about stone.

My new dovetail marking gauge - it's got classic lines:

steve s

Trad climber

eldo

Jan 18, 2017 - 09:05pm PT

Okay, not sure where the "Monet" slab came from. As for wrassling stone, I,m just an interior trim carpenter. I try to leave the heavy lifting to the pro slab wrestlers . In fact one of our job motto,s is " Never let the customer see you struggle".....or sweat. Cheers

H, is that a Forrest Titon?

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Jan 18, 2017 - 09:11pm PT

You betcha...

Flip Flop

climber

Earth Planet, Universe

Jan 19, 2017 - 09:16am PT

Healyje,
Those dovetails are really clean. I'm inspired.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jan 19, 2017 - 09:28am PT

Time for a little gypsum mining...

I've never understood why guys who do that shiz don't see the utility of spending $10 for a
sheet of cheap lauan to make accurate templates.

steve s

Trad climber

eldo

Jan 19, 2017 - 11:23am PT

^^^its because they are lazy. Slab came from Madagascar apparently for those that were wondering. Back to my barn door and track. Cheers

climber

away from the ground

Jan 19, 2017 - 12:47pm PT

Hmmm... Anybody making granite templates with luan and hot glue is a dinosaur these days. It's all .dfx files made on site. Drop the tripod, turn it on, run the magic pen around your counter, and it's all done in 10 minutes with 99.99 accuracy.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jan 19, 2017 - 01:13pm PT

^^^^HaHaHa! You can make a lot of templates for the cost of one of those rigs and around here not many granite guys would know how to run it.

perswig

climber

Jan 19, 2017 - 01:22pm PT

Clever jig, healyje, and really nice work on the box corners!

Dale

climber

away from the ground

Jan 19, 2017 - 01:27pm PT

Yeah, doesn't surprise me that dinosaurs that deny climate change and think the cheeto jesus is going to make America great again would have a hard time learning how to trace something using a pen with a single on/off button.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jan 19, 2017 - 02:03pm PT

I take it you're talking about me? That's pretty lame, not to mention rather
far off the mark on many, if not all, fronts, not the least of which is
fouling the usually civil tone employed on this thread. And as an early
user of Cabinet Vision* I laugh robustly at yer ignorant condescension.
I will continue to use my friend Armando who, while not very computer savvy,
is at least polite, especially while he makes one of his very accurate
templates.

*the latest price of which tops $30K for the CNC version we have

ps
Do show me one thread I've ever posted that denies climate change,
Don't worry, I won't stay up waiting for a retraction or apology.

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Jan 19, 2017 - 02:15pm PT

Flip flop and Perswig - thanks. It works good as a dovetail marker, but needs to be cleaned up and the edges filed flat after a couple of decades of climbing on it.

Brandon-

climber

The Granite State.

Jan 19, 2017 - 02:34pm PT

No politics on this thread, mmkay?

I wish I had a functioning camera these days, as the project is pretty cool. Old camp on a lake, roof off, new pitch, a huge dormer on the new roof system, and lotsa' lvl's to open the space up. And, there's a dead deer on the lake that a couple of bald eagles have been eating. Pleasant Lake in New London NH.

As usual, nice work all.

Edge

Trad climber

Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO

Jan 19, 2017 - 03:20pm PT

As a dedicated ex-pat New Englander, I am cheeper than a box of baby chicks. For the various templates I need, I use a variety of perfectly inexpensive old school techniques that require no batteries or large expenditures, but then again I still use a drafting board. To be honest I've never heard of the templating pen, and only started using pneumatic nail guns 3 years ago...

My shop looks big, until I test set up a paint grade, king sized bed frame with dresser drawer headboard.

climber

away from the ground

Jan 19, 2017 - 03:56pm PT

Reilly, bro. Why so defensive? I was referring to the guys you said wouldn't be able to figure how to use a Proline pen and tablet. Just a guess.....
I didn't know cabinet vision could be used for 15' elliptical quartz tops. I thought it was just for cut lists and small parts CNC.

If a guy can afford equipment and space for fabricating Quartz and granite tops, then the extra 10-20k is a drop in the bucket. I haven't seen a luan template in 7 or 8 years, and I'm in the boondocks. The cost of the equipment pays for itself by preventing the mistakes and inaccuracies that are inevitable by using other methods. Plus the instantly available visualization for the customer saves a lot of back and forth.