Tick Stick: The Carpentry Tool That Does the Impossible

This popped up on my suggested YouTube videos yesterday, so I watched it.  I like the idea, but it seems kind of slow.  Perhaps it's not slower than other methods when used for a complicated shape as the presenter did in the video.

Jason

I watched the video today. I'll keep it in mind if I ever have a shape to duplicate that would otherwise require an endless series of trials to achieve.

well, the essential craftsman is now just down to copying other peoples' videos. But maybe he was already, and I didn't notice it. 

google's first shot at the oldest reference on the internet returned two things:
* description of a tick stick in a 1981 boatbuilding book (obviously, this isn't the question I asked when seeking the oldest internet reference)
* in the first few returns was bob smalser (employed in a "real job" but talked about and showed boatbuilding stuff) - sawmill creek, 2007. 

I'm sure there are older references in newsgroup discussions. 

someone by the name of "seejanedrill" did a video on these, which is the first I saw of them, and got several million views. Which guarantees people will copy her just about as much as splitting wood in a tire. 

Like most of us, I saw a few of these videos and thought it was novel and have never used the trick.