I haven't done anything very tricky. Molding around a medicine cabinete, and building a maple table, and a gun cabinete are the extent of my visible work. I have only, the braille tape measure, a t square, a 1 foot square, a router, sabre saw, circular saw, and viola! a belt sander. I'd love to have some of the stuff you guys have. But as far as sneaking up on it, yeah, can do that. I put very fine belts on the sander, which is strapped belt side up onto a table, and zip, a hair's worth is gone. I'm a clutz, so all of my stuff is (um) amended. well, I'm getting better. The fancy molding around the mirrored medicine cabinet used the sander a lot. It is tapered trim needing a mitre and that was tough. But the indoor outdoor maple table was mostly relying on the squares. so for what little it is worth, there it is.
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Scott Howell wrote: > Dan, I think your absolutely correct and sneaking up on it is going to > be the only real way. It's very easy when your talking straight lines, > but you start tossing angles in there, your talking a new way of > measuring and looking at things. Maybe if you have a really good > background in math, which I do not and not for the lack of interest, > you probably could work some numbers and figure it out and maybe not. > I know just from cutting laminate for my flooring project, I had to > learn to account for the blade thickness and the like and I still made > silly mistakes. > This does bring up an interesting question however. I've been toying > with the idea of replacing my busted talking tape measure with either > a new one or just get me one of those good old braille tape measures > with the six-inch extension. I have my rotomatic which is great for > many things, but there, are times where a tape measure is more > helpful. So, true the talking buggers are more accurate especially > with inside measurements, but the braille tape measures are less > likely to crap out on you. So, has anyone really used one of these > braille tape measures and found them useful? I mean useful in that you > could work with inside and outside measurements? > > On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Dan Rossi wrote: > >> Scott, >> >> You have gotten lots of answers here. I just want to say that if you >> are >> cutting a piece with outside corners at either end, well no matter >> which >> way the corners go, the problem is accurately measuring exactly >> where the >> saw blade will cut the piece of trim. >> >> It is easy if you are cutting a 90, but once you start turning the >> blade, >> it makes it difficult to get a measuring instrument rught up against >> where >> you need to measure to. Sneaking up on it is the way I did it. >> >> -- >> Blue skies. >> Dan Rossi >> Carnegie Mellon University. >> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Tel: (412) 268-9081 >> >> > > Scott Howell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
