On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:39:02 +0000, Richard Casady wrote:


I once ordered a sheet of 5x10 plywood. I cut it carefully. If not
summer would have been gone before I finished the boat.

A magazine, I think it might have been Popular Mechanics, had a contest
to see what you could make out of 1 4x8 sheet of plywood. One of the
designs was for a picnic table which a girlfriend decided to make. It
was a clever design. You could take it apart in a minute, and store it
in the trunk of a car. The design might have been for one sheet, but I
would have needed 1/2 dozen sheets to make all those cuts right. The
girlfriend swore she only needed 1 sheet. I didn't believe her. ;-)

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:02:08 -0800 (PST), Monkey Butler
wrote:

On Mar 6, 4:43 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
Building my truck mounted camper, I made both sides the same. They
should have been mirror images. Now I have to make another before I
can put the sides on. Other than that, the project is going much
slower than expected mostly due to very cold weather where I could not
use epoxy.

You just need to build two campers now.

There should be some kind of law for cutters besides "measure twice,
cut once."
I've done the same thing Frogwatch did.
More than once.
There oughta be a law.

--Vic


Me too, although not as serious as a whole camper side.

But if I try to play weekend warrior in the carpentry department especially
doing trimwork molding, I get lost fast.

If I were Frogman, I'd slap it together but only drive east or west.

Eisboch

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:09:03 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:



Me too, although not as serious as a whole camper side.

But if I try to play weekend warrior in the carpentry department especially
doing trimwork molding, I get lost fast.

Mostly comes from working too fast and not thinking enough.
If I feel a hint of confusion before I cut, I don't.
Too often I'm not confused, just wrong.

If I were Frogman, I'd slap it together but only drive east or west.


That could work. Another option is have a nice label made for it.
"Manufactured by Picasso"

--Vic

On Mar 6, 9:22 pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:09:03 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:



Me too, although not as serious as a whole camper side.

But if I try to play weekend warrior in the carpentry department especially
doing trimwork molding, I get lost fast.

Mostly comes from working too fast and not thinking enough.
If I feel a hint of confusion before I cut, I don't.
Too often I'm not confused, just wrong.

If I were Frogman, I'd slap it together but only drive east or west.

That could work. Another option is have a nice label made for it.
"Manufactured by Picasso"

--Vic

Only drive one way, thats good.
I am afraid to try the cold cure epoxy because it'll be warm very soon
and then the stuf'll cure in seconds.
You'll know me when you see me going down the road.

On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:22:03 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

That could work. Another option is have a nice label made for it.
"Manufactured by Picasso"

Alexander Calder painted an airplane for Braniff Airlines. For an
encore he did a toolbox for one of the mechanics.

Casady