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266112 "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> 2018‑07‑16 Re: story sticks
Don asks us to tell him a story.. 

> ... 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,

I use story sticks frequently, starting yers back when I made a short run of
meditation stools for my GIT,  Marking out lots of pieces, some angled, would
have been a pain with a rule and drawings.  Still have it, though I see marks I
no longer understand, whihc is a shame, as I have been asked to make some more.

That one was just a length of offcut, thinned down at one edge with the edge
marked and annotated.  More intelligible codes would be good.  Later ones I make
using lengths of ply, again planed on the edges and thinned with a bevel if
appropriate, then given a coat of white paint.  This is hugely better.  Mostly
because it avoids the embarrassment of them going for scrap at the end of a
project, but also because the marks show up, as do any notes.  You can recycle
with a fresh coat of paint too.  Us Yorkshiremen are carefu’ wi’ t’ brass.

I seem to recall something in one of my books which showed the dimensions for a
door or similar laid out on the drawing in story stick style - alongside the
projection, with all dimensions for all components, and sections for the
mouldings.  The designer recognising the method of production.  I’ll go and take
a look and see if I can report in a reference.

Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot 
 in unnaturally warm Northumbria at 29 centimetric degrees

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