"Rick" wrote in message
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Ytter wrote:

Buy or scrounge a bunch of cheap "doorskin" and a hot glue gun. Cut
doorskin into strips, use scissors to cut doorskin to fit the odd shapes
and spaces, glue strips together in place and you have a perfect template.

Rick


Thats the method I saw used at the Govan shipyards in Glasgow, many years
ago.
They would use that thin wood, that you used to see orange boxes made off.
The strips were nailed together rather than hot glue, and braces were used
to support the bigger templates.
It was some sight to see two big Glaswegian shipyard workers manoeuvering a
flimsy 15 -20 ft long template down a gangway on their way to the cutting
shop.

regards
garry

garry crothers wrote:

Thats the method I saw used at the Govan shipyards in Glasgow, many years
ago.

It works a charm ... the beauty is that you can use scissors to trim
small pieces to fit perfectly, glue them exactly in place and, like you
said, brace the larger sections for dimensional stability and still be
able to bend them a bit to get in and out of tricky areas.

I like it because you can work small sections at a time and still create
a large but perfect template.

Rick