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, so he had to make do with taking
a photo of one of mine. But I offered to look through some of my books
to see what I could find on the topic, and the only reference to story
sticks was in Jere Cary's book on kitchen cabinets, where he gives a
detailed explanation of their use. His description, and the sticks
themselves, have been immensely useful to me both in refitting a
kitchen, and in building furniture. Basically, they serve as a tool of
relative measure, as a method for transferring dimensions - from a
kitchen to the workshop, or from a full-size drawing to stock on the
workbench. It seemed to me I should be able to find some reference to
them elsewhere, but I can't. Does anyone know of earlier references to
these devices? Does anyone else use them? Has anyone found them at sales?
Don
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