Story sticks, called "tick sticks" by boat builders, are used in lofting to
transfer actual physical dimensions from one view on the lofting to another.
Lofting is the process of transferring the table of offsets to the lofting floor
and using them to draw out the lines, usually in three views (and traditionally
drawn one on top of one another) needed to build a boat. TITANIC was lofted in
this manner. (Believe it or not, aircraft were lofted too - I think the 747 was
the first big aircraft to be computer modeled). I'll check my library and see
what I can find on the topic of "tick sticks".
 
Pete Leenhouts
MV RIPTIDE, a 1927 bridge deck cruiser
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In a message dated 7/17/2018 1:02:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, oldtools-
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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:04:29 -0400
From: William Ghio 
To: Don Schwartz 
Cc: OldTools List 
Subject: Re: [OldTools] story sticks
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> On Jul 16, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Don Schwartz  wrote:
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> 
> Our daughter and son-in-law GIT visited recently to surprise me for my
birthday. One of the things he showed interest in was getting an image of a
story stick. I couldn't find one..

In ?Doormaking & Windowmaking? published by Lost Arts Press, Anonymous (c. 1910)
simply assumes you know what a ?Setting Out Rod? is and describes it in one
sentence.

George Ellis, ?Modern Practical Joinery? goes into a bit of detail w/
illustration about a ?story rod? use in stairbuilding c. 1902.

Bernard Jones in ?The Practical Woodworker? c.19?? discusses the ?setting out
rod? in reference to window making.

Those are the only references I could find in my library.

Bill