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   Johan | Dec 05, 2004 02:57am | #1

   Hi Steve

   Nothing wrong with a bit of improvisation which all ads to the important aspect of the woodworking game "Job satisfaction"

   Thanks for the MS word tip on utilising the 8x4 sheet on the PC.

   What sort job's are you doing at the moment in the newly built workshop. Space is always a problem in the UK which comes with a high price. Let us know what you are up to. As it seems that we share common ground. The money factor.

   Johan

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   BALDEAGLE | Dec 06, 2004 01:38am | #2

   Thanks for your reply Johan.

   I'm the preverbial recycle man.  Take a piece of wood--painted, second hand, part of a furniture piece or whatever, saw it/plane it/shape it and it's no longer the same piece anymore.  Once it has been made part of another masterpiece who cares about its origin, and it's another piece saved from the skip.

   So in that connection I am converting a drop leaf table (only one leaf left) into a computer desk with shelving above (as resquested by the boss she who must be obeyed).  The challenge is to do it without buying any wood.  The sides and top are the slats from a bed edge joined, the head board is used to make two shelves.  I am also using some plywood that was a model railway base, a knot was utilised as a "pond" this I repaired, also some block board both front edged with real wood.  The whole thing to be stained with antique pine.

   By the way my "saw bench" that gets most use is a Wolfcraft multipurpose one that takes jigsaw, router and circ saw.  The baby B & D gets most use.

   So there you have it, tell us what you are to up Johan. 

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   Johan | Dec 06, 2004 09:53pm | #3

   Hi Steve

   Nice to hear from you. I dont know how to use the drawing facility on MS Word. I have tried playing around to see if I can make sense of it. All I can do is dragging a sqaure with the mouse and a right click. Any Idea's or pointers how te get started with drawing this 8x4 sheet and how do you do it to scale? Would it be possible to add in an attachment as an example on your next reply.? 

   Judging your working enviroment. Have a look at the following website http://www.hegner.co.uk Just an Idea. You never know.

   Look at the Unicut 2. It is an small work bench with a mounted sliding arm for which you can use the circular saw,router,small angle grinder in for Rip & crosscut with mitre,overhead routing and for cutting metal. If you ask them they will send you a free tape which demonstates the endless things that you can do with it. Ideal for the workshop you have.

   At the moment I am working on a house built in 1598 as an ongoing project. I left the office job for good about a year ago.

   So a this precise moment I will be laying a solid wood oak floar. Did a lot of carpentry work on the house already in the past like making new windows, re hanging doors skirting, architrave and so on.

   My next challenge wood be to make doors. Never done it before and never seen how it is done. So I still have to do a bit of research on that. Need to make 25 bespoke doors for the particular house which consists of 13 bedrooms.

   We will speak soon Steve. I am off to do a bit of shop fitting after shop hours.

    

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   BALDEAGLE | Dec 07, 2004 01:46am | #4

   Hi Johan, nice to hear from a busy man, you make me feel a bit humble with all that before you. Good luck hope it all goes well.  Thanks for the web site tip, I'll keep that in mind, it's nice kit, I'd better rewrite my letter  to Santa, again!!

   As for MS WORD DRAW here we go then:  I'm assuming your Word edition is fairly recent.  You found the "square" starting point so the drawing tool bar was selected. From this scribe a square any size, keep it highlighted, double keft click or right click, this will get you to Format Autoshape, click on Size to prescribe the precise dimensions.  I use metric so for a 8 x 4 foot use (2440 * 1220mm) this makes sense when using a 1:10 scale, I prefer metric for precision anyway simpler than all those eighths. Remember if you rotate the drawing; the length becomes the height etc., but the computer does not know this, if you know what I mean.  There is also a simple 3D effect gives the drawing a bit of realisam, if needed.  If you want to change the measurement system metric/imperial; click on TOOLS/options/general .

   Hope this gives you a start, once mastered you can do a lot of work long before you go to the workshop and reduce wastage--got to be a good thing. 

   All the best Steve.

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   Dan019 | Dec 08, 2004 07:59pm | #5

   Welcome to Knots Steve,

   Good tip! I've been screwing around with an excel spreadsheet but that took much longer. I wish I'd had your tip about a week ago, but I'll use it next time.

   BTW, how are you allowing for the kerf? Are you making separate boxes only .0125" (for 1/8") wide and attaching them to the other boxes?

   Dan

    

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   BALDEAGLE | Dec 09, 2004 02:34am | #6

   Hi Dan,  Yes I have made boxes to allow for kerfs.  I found a way to acheive the right proximity without overlapping. Click on Draw on the Drawing toolbar, then on Grid; this will allow the adjustment of the incremental movement of any highlighted figure.  Also from this menu you can decide the order of overlapped figures, plus if you are doing a sketch of a project you can group a selection  highlighted figures to move in "unison as one" eg., where the project is in two sections.  For this click on the arrow pointing north-west, draw the dotted line around the desired figures and select Group.

   Good luck, yours Steve