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Re: Strip: Form Alignment
By:Rick Allnutt
Date: 11/15/2002, 10:31 am
In Response To: Strip: Form Alignment (Rick Sylvia)

Don't sweat the small stuff when you can't do anything about it.

But if you see the form is a little off, push a wedge between the form and the strongback to bring it into best possible alignment. Anything within a 1/16 of an inch would count in my book as nearly perfect. Off any more than that and I would be looking for a way to fix it. You are about to spend 80 to 200 hours making that shape look good. Don't set yourself up to wish you would have spent 10 minutes fixing the ding back in November.

Rick

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Form Alignment
Rick Sylvia -- 11/15/2002, 9:10 am
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/15/2002, 2:17 pm
Re: Strip: Form Alignment *LINK*
D. Gordon -- 11/16/2002, 9:24 pm
faired strips, faired str/back, crooked yak
mike allen -- 11/18/2002, 3:35 pm
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Craig Bethune -- 11/16/2002, 8:39 am
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Rick Allnutt -- 11/15/2002, 10:31 am
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Rick Sylvia -- 11/15/2002, 11:07 am
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Rick Allnutt -- 11/15/2002, 1:28 pm
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Rick Sylvia -- 11/15/2002, 2:08 pm
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Marcel -- 11/15/2002, 12:24 pm
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Rick Sylvia -- 11/15/2002, 2:12 pm
Re: Strip: Form Alignment
Marcel -- 11/15/2002, 6:09 pm