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266111 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2018‑07‑16 story sticks
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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