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Thoughts on DT Lay Out

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Re: Thoughts on DT Lay Out

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Re: centering...

James Watriss


>Of course Bob's my uncle. Bob is everybody's uncle.

You know why? Bob's mother was the old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, they've tainted the gene pool.

I guess that means our collective great aunt was... well...

Let's just say she made a lot of babies.

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I agree that most folks are pretty good at bisecting. But people are also generally really good at over-complicating or over-analyzing things. Maybe they bisect by hand, and one side is mildly bigger, and then the two tails that meet in the "middle" are a little off. Or maybe someone uses a ruler to do an "equal" division, instead of repeated bisections, and they get the math wrong somehow...

I'm not saying it's easy to get right, I'm just being difficult, and I felt like pointing out that it's easy to get wrong, too. It's friday, I'm punchy, tired, and I need to go sleep off a cold.

Have a good night, all.

Re: Thoughts on DT Lay Out

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Re: Thoughts on DT Lay Out

ThomD


>I would have had at least one more pin, and the half pins wouldn't have been bigger than the full pins, though when you make your regular pins that nice and narrow something has to give.

Re: Thoughts on DT Lay Out

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Re: centering...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX


>Yeah, yeah, but this girl enjoys making dovetails and she wants to continue to do so. Hah! :)

Pam

Re: Thoughts on DT Lay Out

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Re: centering...

James Watriss


>Yeah, I know. :) That's why we all love you, Pam.

All joking aside you're right. It's fun to obsess over things like layout, as long as the obsession doesn't get in the way of doing the actual work.

Happy Sunday.

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