I like all your ideas and they seem pretty plausible. I am still sticking with an old (non talking) tape measure with a good locking mechanism. I use my talking one when I actually need to measure but many times I only need to accurately measure length or distance between and then set the item up on my saw. I find the old good locking tape measure works well for me.
Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Tom Vos Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device: Not necessary, but one will keep the dowel from sliding all the way out. The other keeps it from sliding all the way in, and provides a mounting for whatever kind of end you put on it I put a matching piece of pvc on mine, but someone had a good suggestion about putting a small square block on that end, so it wouldn't roll around. I might do that yet to mine. Blessings, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device: It is not necessary to have full round ends either is it? ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Fowle To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: another measuring device: tom, I don't think you could do much with a plane, the plane needs long spaces ahead of and behind it so you'd maybe just be able to make a curved dent in the middle. You might drill holes off center along the dowell and finish them off with a flat chisel or a scroll saw, but it'd be the devil of a lot of work to get a smooth cut. Actually if you plained down an entire dowell having first cut off an inch length, then cut that 1 inch piece down the center and glued each half on the new flats at either end of the dowel, that might do it. still a lot of work obviously the table saw or router would be the real way to go Hmmm, wonder if you could buy an appropriate chunk of "Half Round" and cut 1 inch chunks off, glue them flat to flat, on the ends of the half round. There are always a lot of different ways to do most things, but I think yours is the simplest if you have the table saw and skill. What i can't figure is how you kept the dowel moving straight and just took off a small amount each cut guess you could set up a rip fence and move it each cut but that too is too much fuss. tom Fowle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
