Veritas steel straight edge:

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:50:27 -0500, "Robin Lee" calmly ranted:

Especially after UPS and FedEx get through with 'em, eh?

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Frank...

Can you imagine a carpet looking worse than an orange/purple/pink shag carpet that's more than 0.005" /oversize/?

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Morris Dovey responds:

Probably the guy who did a house I looked at in Parkersburg. One bedroom had purple and grfeen shag carpet, with one wall all mirrors (several of them broken), while another bedroom had brown and yellowish orange shag, with one wall all bookcase--badly built but firmly nailed to the wall.

Charlie Self "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country." Ambrose Bierce

This is good news. I've been awaiting the re-emergence of the longer straight edge.

UA100

How accurate are machinist parallels? Can they be used to accurately true up table saws and jointers? What exactly do machinists use them for?

Eric T

OH NO! I already left the last supplement, with the 24" heavily highlighted, on the kitchen table for "Santa" to see...

Clever thought, dude. Put a coupla layers of duct tape over one edge when it comes out of the box...

Or, getting silly, rip it lengthwise and have a twofer.

Any pricing info, Robin? (I'm sure someone in Canada will complain about the unfair pricing...) :

David

Rob>>

How ok are you with non-Euclidian space? :)

Hi David -

Right now, they sit at :

Not sure about shipping surcharge (Canada) on the 50" one - but I think we're eating it....nothings final 'till it's printed though.

Cheers -

Rob

fold it to make it short enough so you don't have a surcharge

Ok, lets say the wall is out of parallel by 10 thousandths. . . . . . . . . .

The same wall that's framed by guys who mark with crayons? Never!

Barry

Rob

Any possibility that you are going to come out with those lengths in STEEL??

I know, they would be MORE expensive, but frankly, I prefer Steel over Aluminum for things like those that I intend to keep and USE for many, many years

John

Barry, don't scoff at the guys with crayons! Crayons are much more accurate than using a spray can of inverted marking paint.

David

Ba r r y wrote:

Hi John -

We're looking at longer steel versions - but it requires new equipment, the weight becomes a factor, as does the stress relief....it won't be fast...

Cheers -

Rob

Clearly a problem Edwin, but that's where the art of splicing on a carpet shim comes in. Stick a little duct tape on the underside spanning the joint, and marry in the .0010 needed to follow the wall. Geeze...

I've got one wall in this house that's laughable, unless you owned it. Thankfully it's a interior wall inside of a closet.

This reminds me of a recent WSN article I read. A former boat outfitter was describing how nothing in a boat is square, and everything needs to be scribed. Just like a lot of new homes!

Seriously, though, the boat fitting has to make working with funky compound angles second nature.

Barry