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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 31, 2023 1:07:54 GMT -5
jasoninsd I did wonder about your girdle height having to be the radius of a Sharpie. This looks like it requires coordination, or a third hand. :-) Are you holding the Sharpie at the top center of the ruler where the little divot is and then both holding the square and also spinning the cab with the other hand? I must be tired...I don't understand what you mean by your first sentence... No. I use the top edge of the ruler to mark a small line on the cab...then turn the cab...then draw another short line...repeat until all the way around the cab. Trust me, if something required more than two hands, I'm definitely no good at it. LOL If you look at my picture...where you see the black "bleeding" onto the ruler...that's about how long of a line I draw before I turn the cab and continue the lines until I'm all the way around the cab... |
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CLErocks
spending too much on rocks
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Post by CLErocks on Jan 31, 2023 7:50:52 GMT -5
khara those are both beautiful. On #2 if you’d put a second bead on the back of the bail it could be double sided! So pretty! jasoninsd this forum warms my heart. So many helpful people! Thank you! I’m not cabbing (yet), but seeing the creative use of tools really gets my brain going! Thanks!
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Post by liveoak on Jan 31, 2023 7:58:50 GMT -5
I mark my girdle line differently.
Honestly it's something I read a bunch of times & thought it sounded hokey.
But it works.
First I take my caliper and measure the height of my would be cab and decide how tall to mark it in the first place.
I usually try for 2.5 mm. So I scratch a line on my stone or make a small dot.
Then I put the pre-form on my bench & with a fine line sharpie marker I mark it.
(pencil just doesn't seem to stay OR easy enough to see)
First I line up the sharpie with my scratch/dot & then I put another pencil (round object) under the end of the sharpie I'm using.
You move the sharpie up or down on the 2nd round object until the sharpie is positioned with the writing point on your first mark for your girdle & it's stable on the 2nd object.
Then you just rotate the stone & mark it , keeping your hand steady holding the sharpie.
Works for any size stone.
Works for me. Patty
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 31, 2023 9:50:54 GMT -5
khara those are both beautiful. On #2 if you’d put a second bead on the back of the bail it could be double sided! So pretty! jasoninsd this forum warms my heart. So many helpful people! Thank you! I’m not cabbing (yet), but seeing the creative use of tools really gets my brain going! Thanks! Awww...well that warms my heart!  I'm a true believer in "redneck engineering"! LOL I meant to say earlier that in no way do I think my way is the only way...nor maybe the "best" way. However, it's the "best" way I've found for me. I like doing my girdle line on the slide square because there's absolutely no instability. I don't have to work to keep my hand steady...that way there's no doubt my girdle line is absolutely even with the bottom edge of the cab all the way around the perimeter. |
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K Wraps
Jan 31, 2023 10:18:50 GMT -5
Post by liveoak on Jan 31, 2023 10:18:50 GMT -5
Of course jasoninsd that goes without saying. I just thought I'd post how I do it & how it is comfortable for me,
so Khara can figure out the best way for her.
Patty
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 31, 2023 10:34:35 GMT -5
Of course jasoninsd that goes without saying. I just thought I'd post how I do it & how it is comfortable for me,
so Khara can figure out the best way for her.
Patty
Yeah...I know why you posted what you did...and I was careful enough to put this as my first sentence: "I meant to say earlier that in no way do I think my way is the only way...nor maybe the "best" way." So, I'm not sure why it appears you're "calling me out" for something here... |
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K Wraps
Jan 31, 2023 11:08:26 GMT -5
Post by liveoak on Jan 31, 2023 11:08:26 GMT -5
Yeah...I know why you posted what you did...and I was careful enough to put this as my first sentence: "I meant to say earlier that in no way do I think my way is the only way...nor maybe the "best" way." So, I'm not sure why it appears you're "calling me out" for something here... Not sure what you mean jasoninsd, could you please clarify how you think I "called you out " or offended you somehow.
Patty
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 31, 2023 11:18:56 GMT -5
jasoninsd and liveoak-- You have BOTH lost ME. I don't see where either one of you was off base- in any way. Me thinks y'all are reading too much into stuff.
And to muddy the water.... I don't mark my girdle, at all. Of course, that's gets me in trouble sometimes.... LOL! BUt, I've seen "Patty's" way a bunch of times. Jason, that's a new one on me. Not quite sure I understand it, but it clearly works for you. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 31, 2023 11:29:27 GMT -5
Yeah...I know why you posted what you did...and I was careful enough to put this as my first sentence: "I meant to say earlier that in no way do I think my way is the only way...nor maybe the "best" way." So, I'm not sure why it appears you're "calling me out" for something here... Not sure what you mean jasoninsd , could you please clarify how you think I "called you out " or offended you somehow.
Patty
Sure. You specifically tagged me stating the reason why you posted your way of marking the girdle. Your "passive aggressive" use of the words "I just thought I'd post how I do it" was a sly way to infer and take a shot at me that I had implied my way was the "right way" to do it! You didn't need to tag me on this. You specifically directed you comment AT me...rather than making it a general statement about your reasoning for posting your way of doing it was to help khara...which I thought just "went without saying"! |
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Post by parfive on Jan 31, 2023 16:25:57 GMT -5
I think most of us find it easier to hold the Sharpie flat on the table and pad the cab up to mark it.
Also no problem marking inside curves this way.
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Post by Son Of Beach on Jan 31, 2023 17:49:30 GMT -5
I think what parfive is talking about is at 10:50 in this vid |
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Post by parfive on Jan 31, 2023 18:57:43 GMT -5
Son Of Beach Similar but not quite how I do it, Chad. However, it does show exactly what Patty/ liveoak described.
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khara
fully equipped rock polisher
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K Wraps
Jan 31, 2023 23:26:36 GMT -5
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Post by khara on Jan 31, 2023 23:26:36 GMT -5
Good info everyone. Thank you. Some different methods to try out. 👍
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