Tin Can Geometry and Simple Layout…
November 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under Router Tips
I always get asked for plans for the projects we build on the show and thinking back on that particular project I think of how we really laid out the project.
I find that the woodworking magazines have the tendency to make us rely on a plan to complete the projects we might want to build. Check out our hi-tech layout techniques and begin to think outside the box.
Here is a challenge to you. The next time you visit a furniture show room and find something you want to build take a picture of that furniture piece and try to make a set of plans you can build from your napkin drawings.
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Love the tips you show us,wonder where you got that bendable stick you showed in the video?..
Joe,
The bendable stick is a piece of 1/8″ scrap Plexiglas that you can find at your local Plastics store.
The idea here is that the measuring tools don’t need to be anything fancy. Three different sized tin cans, one piece of poly, couple finishing nails and a piece of scrap Plexiglas.
To practice tin can geometry look around the house and pick a bunch of different geometric shapes out of the recycle bin. The begin to use these objects to lay out your own table pattern.
As a reminder practice is very important and remember to go with the flow there is no right or wrong way of do the layout process.
Thanks, Rick