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Post by stardiamond on Mar 10, 2020 19:11:34 GMT -5
My wife had a cab collection before I started making cabs. A lot of different shapes made by craftsman. When I started out making cabs my wife would do the design and go to her cabs to find the right shape for the preform. A loop of painting tape would hold the cab in place when it was being traced and I would leave the cab out in case I needed to retrace when cutting.
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Post by stardiamond on Mar 11, 2020 13:37:21 GMT -5
I slabbed the two larger pieces. My blade is stuck on the arbor of my trim saw and will need to destroy it when I am ready to replace the blade. Slabbing wears the blade faster than trimming so I won't work on the smaller pieces until I am about to replace the blade. The largest piece of rough was a bust with no discernable pattern. I'll contact them and provide feedback. The smaller piece had an incomplete but very nice pattern.  |
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 11, 2020 14:06:47 GMT -5
Yet another alternative is a low cost, low-tech, custom template method. An example ... 1. Take a piece of plastic and draw one side of a cab. Here I've cut a piece from a cottage cheese container bottom, making a straight cut (well, pretty darn straight) and then making just two simple strokes with a sharpie:  2. I cut out my half-cab template:  3. And then I traced out two copies that share the straight side. It guarantees a symmetrical cab shape, which in this case is my pointed shield shape:
Great idea!
I use see thru cutting sheets from the dollar store. They are pretty thick and harder to cut through, but make nice templates. Whenever I cut a freeform I like, I trace it out and save it as a template.
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Post by Rockoonz on Mar 11, 2020 14:22:57 GMT -5
opalpyrexia I make my own center line symmetry templates as well. I think the French curve in the OP would come in handy for that.
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Post by opalpyrexia on Mar 11, 2020 15:14:54 GMT -5
opalpyrexia I make my own center line symmetry templates as well. I think the French curve in the OP would come in handy for that.
Ah, yes, great idea! We have a few French curves. There's really no limit to the number of possible 'center line symmetry' shapes with those.
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Post by opalpyrexia on Mar 11, 2020 15:18:02 GMT -5
Yet another alternative is a low cost, low-tech, custom template method. An example ...
Great idea!
I use see thru cutting sheets from the dollar store. They are pretty thick and harder to cut through, but make nice templates. Whenever I cut a freeform I like, I trace it out and save it as a template.
I've had some sheets on my Amazon wish list, but forget that! Now I'm just going to our local dollar store — thanks!
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Post by julieooly on Mar 11, 2020 18:53:13 GMT -5
Gary if there was a prize you'd win it, I always trace around the center (like with the templates we've been sharing) I've never traced around the outside of a shape before. Game changer!! Oh and Stephen if you're reading and you got those Royal Imperial within the last few weeks I think we were bidding against each other  I have too many things on my wish list to compete though. |
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Post by stardiamond on Mar 11, 2020 18:58:01 GMT -5
Gary if there was a prize you'd win it, I always trace around the center (like with the templates we've been sharing) I've never traced around the outside of a shape before. Game changer!! Oh and Stephen if you're reading and you got those Royal Imperial within the last few weeks I think we were bidding against each other I have too many things on my wish list to compete though. The Royal Imperia was from the vendor who sold templates. I gave up trying to bid on RI on ebay a long time ago. $15 a pound for select. I had to pay shipping on the template and like to combine shipping when possible. |
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I have too many things on my wish list to compete though.
